Re: [PATCH] acpi: update win8 OSI blacklist

From: Felipe Contreras
Date: Sun Oct 06 2013 - 16:40:53 EST


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:29:10PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:13:03PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >> More people have reported they need this for their machines to work
>> >> correctly.
>> >
>> > Can you add a comment to each indicating why they're being added so we
>> > can easily remove them again once the problem is fixed?
>>
>> Because that's what users report:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60682
>
> Yes. For each entry, add a comment describing the specific bug seen.

In case you didn't hear, the plan was to add an entry if a user
reports the backlight not working correctly, and acpi_osi="!Windows
2012" fixing it with no negative effects. and that's what users did in
bug #60682.

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Felipe Contreras
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