Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755596AbYGZMme (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:42:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751925AbYGZMm0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:42:26 -0400 Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:1602 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbYGZMmZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:42:25 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,255,1215414000"; d="scan'208";a="364868804" Message-ID: <488B1BB3.7010602@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:42:27 -0700 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Thomas Renninger , Len Brown , Arjan van de Ven , linux-acpi , "Moore, Robert" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christian Kornacker Subject: Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown References: <200807241727.41715.trenn@suse.de> <200807251319.12786.trenn@suse.de> <200807251726.14366.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200807251726.14366.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 17 > If vendors use _OSI(Windows) to work around Windows bugs, we get broken > automatically on those systems unless we put in some DMI-based hacks. The general goal of ACPICA is to be bug-to-bug compatible with Windows. So it might be needed for ACPICA to just emulate the respective bugs. That said for this case I don't think that's needed, Linux just has to detect the workarounds (which it already does I think) -Andi -- 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/