Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:04:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> MSI works fine for almost all systems (except AMD systems where
> MSI is broken for ALL devices).

Why do you ignore reality?

MSI does *not* work fine, exactly because the firmware screws it up.

The fact that on a "hardware level" it may work is totally irrelevant. The 
*only* thing that matters is what people actually see.

"Positivism" may not be a hot philosophy these days any more, but dang, it 
certainly is better than what you seem to espouse: "in theory things work 
fine".

And if you don't like positivism, how about just simple scientific method: 
a theory is *proven*wrong* by a single observation to the opposite. And we 
have several people standing up saying that your theory is wrong.

		Linus
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