Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755608AbYJOVu2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:50:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753427AbYJOVuR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:50:17 -0400 Received: from vms172073pub.verizon.net ([206.46.172.73]:40507 "EHLO vms172073pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbYJOVuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:50:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown Subject: RE: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: lenb@localhost.localdomain To: "Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)" Cc: Matthew Garrett , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , ACPI Devel Maling List , Andrew Morton , LKML Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <200810142254.07024.rjw@sisk.pl> <20081015085809.GA1061@srcf.ucam.org> <200810151605.35883.rjw@sisk.pl> <20081015141526.GA5633@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 22 Matthew, You are right, of course, we're not doing something right if a new machine needs this workaround. However, we don't yet know what we're not doing right:-) Until we figure that out, the blacklist is a practical way forward. There have been several cases in the past where we grew a blacklist -- some of them quite large, before we figured out what bug-compatibility magic we needed in order to delete the blacklist. I'm hopeful the same story will play out here. applied. thanks, -Len -- 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/