Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for StorageD3Enable _DSD property

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:52 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 05:20 +0000, Williams, Dan J wrote:
> > The *patch* is not trying to overrule NVME, and the best I can say is
> > that the Intel Linux team was not in the loop when this was being
> > decided between the platform BIOS implemenation and  whomever  thought
> > they could just publish random ACPI properties that impacted NVME
> > operation [1].
> >
> > So now David is trying to get these platform unbroken because they are
> > already shipping with this b0rkage.
>
> This is what we have WARN_TAINT() for though, right? It can suitably
> warn users when such breakage is detected in the platform.
>

I see WARN_TAINT() as "BIOS implemented its specification wrong". This
case is BIOS "implemented a mechanism in the wrong specification".