Re: [PATCH] acpi: update win8 OSI blacklist

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Sun Oct 06 2013 - 20:54:04 EST


On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:50:18PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't get the final
> > say in whether or not this patch gets merged, but there's a decent
> > chance that I'm going to be the one who has to remove the entries again
> > once the backlight mess is fixed up. My life would be significantly
> > easier if the entries are unambiguously identified in such a way that I
> > can remove them without having to dig through git history to figure out
> > where each came from.
>
> And a *single* comment on top of this group entries achieves that just
> fine. You haven't provided a single argument as to why that wouldn't
> be the case.

No, it demonstrably doesn't. The comments that do exist refer to only a
subset of the entries underneath them. Having a per-entry comment is
significantly clearer. Given that I have to delete things from this file
and you don't, I have absolutely no idea why you refuse to believe me on
this.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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