Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] acpi: Add "acpi_osi=" for ASUS X200MA to enable, brightness keys

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Dec 18 2014 - 08:28:12 EST


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:25:42AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

> What does this do to the rest of the function keys? Does everything
> else still work as expected, including suspend and resume?

Disabling OSI completely certainly runs the risk of turning off things
like HPET. It certainly shouldn't be done without checking the ACPI
tables, and it really shouldn't be done at all because this is Intel's
bug and they should just fix it.

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