Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:31:43 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Enable A20 using KBC for some MSI laptops to fix S3 resume |
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On 10/24/2012 02:09 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:36:04 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> Minor concern: it should do the wait for ready before sending each command. > > Can we get a command line to do this quirk too - it strikes me that if > the MSIs rely upon it then it may be something Windows always does so > will be useful to try on other problem machines as an experiment.
I agree, one has to keep in mind the age-old question "how does Windows work?" since it surely has no such quirk. I'd say we're sometimes too quick to add these DMI quirks when a more general solution would be somehow figure out how the Linux behavior differs from what Windows is doing.
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