On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Let's look at this differently. Most hardware is produced by vendors who > don't care about Linux. We need to make that hardware work anyway. The > only way we can achieve that is to be bug-compatible with Windows. > Therefore, any way in which Linux behaviour varies from Windows > behaviour is a bug. The only reason to export any indication that the > kernel is Linux is because our behaviour is not identical to Windows. > But, given that that's a bug, the solution should be to fix Linux and > not to encourage vendors to put workarounds in their firmware.
That punishes vendors which actually care about Linux. These are quite rare in the laptop and desktop market, but they do exist. And such vendors are quite *common* in the enterprise hardware market which doesn't run Windows. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
