Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:17:56 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS |
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On 01/14/2014 03:37 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 04:06:01 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:25:53PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >>> Queued up as a fix for 3.13 (I fixed up the indentation). >> >> Ah, sorry, I missed this chunk of the thread. If the system provides >> valid _BIF data then we should possibly just fall back to that rather >> than adding another quirk table. > > The problem is to know that _BIX is broken. If we could figure that out > upfront, we woulnd't need the quirk table in any case. > > Tianyu, can we do some effort during the driver initialization to detect > this breakage and handle it without blacklisting systems?
Yes, the usual question in such cases is "how does Windows manage to function on such systems, (almost certainly) without a system-specific hack, and can we replicate that behavior?"
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