linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering

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Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	"Brown, John M (WGBU R&D)" <john.brown3@...com>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code
 ordering

Matthew,
You are right, of course, we're not doing something right
if a new machine needs this workaround.

However, we don't yet know what we're not doing right:-)

Until we figure that out, the blacklist is a practical way
forward.  There have been several cases in the past where
we grew a blacklist -- some of them quite large,
before we figured out what bug-compatibility
magic we needed in order to delete the blacklist.
I'm hopeful the same story will play out here.

applied.

thanks,
-Len
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