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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:18:56 -0500 From: Jerone Young <jerone.young@...onical.com> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@...onical.com>, lenb@...nel.org, colin.king@...onical.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > > Don't think this patch should go in as Lenovo is issuing a BIOS to > > address this issue. On these Thinkpads listed and more. Seems to add > > uneeded quirks in my opinion. > > > > Though some over all patch may be good for all machines. As Windows > > seems to be setting this bit on it's own. > > It's a perfectly safe workaround that's limited to a well-bounded set of > machines and fixes a pretty serious problem with them. While I'd prefer > my approach and then a removal of the existing quirk entries, Alex's > patch makes more sense for stable. The BIOS update is as yet unreleased, > requires either Windows or an optical drive (which some of these > machines don't have) and is a far from discoverable solution to the > issue. I could agree, but the only issue is if you go to the thinkpad-acpi or ibm-acpi mailing list they would probably disagree as there have been updates to the bios in the past required for proper functionality of Thinkpads ;-) .. the bios update methods have not changed since then for Thinkpads. Thanks, Jerone -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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