Re: [PATCH] acpi: update win8 OSI blacklist

From: Felipe Contreras
Date: Fri Oct 18 2013 - 22:30:43 EST


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Stefan Hellermann
<stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2013/10/3 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > More people have reported they need this for their machines to work
>> > correctly.
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60682
>>
>> Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann <bugzilla.kernel.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> That's not entirely correct! I reported bios version 2.52 is affected, but
> 2.54 is fixed. I think we should match all Lenovo 3259*, but only bios
> version < 2.54

As far as I know there's no way to do a match like that. So we have to
choose, either we apply the blacklist for all, or for none. Since
removing the win8 OSI doesn't cause any negative effects in 2.54, I
say we would do the former.

--
Felipe Contreras
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