linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change

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Message-ID: <20060910003922.GA8147@tuatara.stupidest.org>
Date:	Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:39:22 -0700
From:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
	akpm@...l.org, torvalds@...l.org, sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, bjorn.helgaas@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, harmon@....edu, len.brown@...el.com,
	vsu@...linux.ru, liste@...det.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:21:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> So why isn't acpi handling all of this for us?

for some people it does...

> Do people not want to use acpi for some reason?

I was told that in the past VIA has buggy/broken ACPI, so we need to
figure out what ACPI workaround Windows has and implement that (or
maybe they do it in the driver(s)?)
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