linux-kernel - Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x230: unhandled HKEY event 0x6050

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Date:	Sat, 9 Mar 2013 23:13:12 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x230: unhandled HKEY event 0x6050

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 05:49:13PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hmm, I don't follow.  thinkpad-acpi does run on ring 0, so was that aimed at
> me?

Huh, is "thinkpad-acpi" the name of a part of a house? :-)

> Or are you complaining about the Win-8 bug-to-bug compatibility madness
> Lenovo added to the ACPI firmware?

Of course, I was simply ranting at the fact that hw vendors like lenovo
need to do all kinds of dancing in the BIOS just so they can get their
windoze certification. I know, I know, they don't have a choice and we
have more of those windoze workarounds in the kernel but we shouldn't.

Btw, what your signature says is very fitting to the occasion. :)

> -- 
>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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