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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:03:38 +0000
From:	Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>
To:	Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@....de>
Cc:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@....cz>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	Pau Oliva Fora <pof@...ack.org>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Adam Belay <abelay@....edu>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make PNP IDs all uppercase

On Sunday 18 January 2009 14:02:32 Philipp Kohlbecher wrote:
> If I understand correctly, ACPI _HIDs (including PNP IDs) should be all
> uppercase, including the hex digits, cf. ACPI Specification 3.0b [1],
> pp. 162-3 and acpi_glb_hex_to_ascii[] in drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c.

ACPI-WMI violates the spec here.

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> index 8a8b377..79b8af7 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int acpi_wmi_add(struct acpi_device *device);
>
>   static const struct acpi_device_id wmi_device_ids[] = {
>   	{"PNP0C14", 0},
> -	{"pnp0c14", 0},
> +	{"PNP0C14", 0},
>   	{"", 0},
>   };
>   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, wmi_device_ids);
> diff --git a/drivers/pnp/quirks.c b/drivers/pnp/quirks.c
> index 8473fe5..18c9335 100644

NAK to the ACPI-WMI changes. There really is a pnp0c14 and a PNP0C14, and 
removing the lower case version breaks ACPI-WMI on my laptop.

-Carlos
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