Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762454AbXH3Trt (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:47:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760304AbXH3Trl (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:47:41 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:34788 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760092AbXH3Trk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:47:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:47:40 -0400 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Al Boldi , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dex@dragonslave.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] Override 80-wire cable detection for Toshiba S1800-814 Message-ID: <20070830194740.GC11130@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <200708300731.20336.a1426z@gawab.com> <20070830110144.1e8020ec@the-village.bc.nu> <200708301654.22346.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 16 On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:38:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hard to tell, since some (most?) laptops have sort of a backplane and there > might be no real cable you could see because it's all mainboard wire paths > already. Makes you wonder why the mainboard doesn't just pretend to be an 80 wire cable if that is what it is compatible with. Seems like a design flaw in the laptop to not do so. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/