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Message-ID: <20140114160444.GA4307@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:44 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
Cc:	lenb@...nel.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fcr@...net.com.uy,
	"3.8+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:37:57PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> The aml method _BIX of NEC LZ750/LS returns a broken package which
> skip the first member "Revision" according ACPI 5.0 spec Table 10-234.

Why don't we just ignore an invalid _BIX and fall back to _BIF? That 
seems more reasonable than setting a precedent for fixing up invalid 
data.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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