linux-kernel - Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi

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Message-ID: <20080112154916.6bca2395@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:49:16 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux"

> Now, what should we do about it?  Add a quirk to always define the Linux OSI
> string on ThinkPads (based on DMI information)?  All IBM ones (which won't
> have BIOS revisions anymore, anyway) deal well with it, and Lenovo ones
> seem to benefit from it.

If Lenovo systems do the right thing then I guess submit a patch which
checks for a DMI identifier string for Lenovo and if so don't lie to the
ACPI interpreter.

Alan
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