Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754308AbYJQEHa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:07:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750912AbYJQEHU (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:07:20 -0400 Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:11069 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbYJQEHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:07:19 -0400 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=NA7lkLqEx1kZuc4n_VwA:9 a=ZXCaYQ2dudE6EQHVfTLC_htwPc0A:4 a=IOF2C89_OicA:10 a=WdjdgcVRjsYA:10 Message-ID: <48F80F6F.6090608@shaw.ca> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:07:11 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Len Brown , "Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)" , Matthew Garrett , ACPI Devel Maling List , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering References: In-Reply-To: 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: 763 Lines: 17 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 of October 2008, Len Brown wrote: >> Matthew, >> You are right, of course, we're not doing something right >> if a new machine needs this workaround. > > Isn't that possible, however, that the BIOS of this new machine is based on an > older one that used to have this problem? Maybe, but it doesn't matter. If it's a new machine it's presumably going to work fine on Vista, etc. so it doesn't make much sense that this machine should require the old ACPI code ordering. -- 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/