From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gts and bfs fixes (v3).
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 23:38:45 +0200
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On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Len Brown wrote:
> Ugh.
> 
> I think instead we should go the other way
> and simply delete the code
> for _GTS and _BFS support.
> 
> The evidence is that while it is documented in the ACPI spec,
> no OS implements it -- for when we tried it, we found some
> systems that shipped AML that doesn't work.

Well, we can still remove it ...
 
> ps. yes, we should also petition the ACPI authors
> to remove _GTS and _BFS from an upcoming revision.

Oh, yes, I totally agree. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael
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