linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:09:33 -0500
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com> wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 04:59 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

>> There is another interface the turn the screen off.
>>
>> If 0 turns the screen off with the intel driver, 0 should turn the
>> screen off with the ACPI driver, having inconsistent behavior
>> depending on which driver is used is a bug.
>
> I'm not sure of this. Remember the days when we switch the hard disk
> driver from IDE to SCSI? The block device name changed from hdx to sdx.
> Is this a bug?

The name might have changed, but the way the interface worked did not;
both hdx and sdx worked exactly the same.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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