On Sunday 05 August 2007, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 18:47 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I'd like to get rid of this message, too. But by fixing the
> > bug and not by hiding it.
> > 
> > So any suggestions on how to fix this?
> 
> I think you could try to write a detailed explanation of the problem, in
> particular, what those tables do, where the numbers come from, what
> hardware is affected, what the driver does now, what it should do, and
> how to find out the right solution from reverse engineering data.

If I knew all these things, I would fix it.

> After all, there are working drivers for the chipset, and they can be
> reverse engineered.  It cannot be a problem with no solution.
> 
> Chances are that you will have some ideas before you finish writing the
> message.  It happened to me many times.  But even if it doesn't happen,
> you will make it easy for others to suggest solutions.  And you will
> give the reverse engineering team some ideas what to look for.

Well, it's not that easy. Current code just doesn't make any sense.
I do not understand how hardware power control works exactly, so I
can't write some detailed message or something.
That's probably a chicken and egg problem ;)
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