On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Jerone Young wrote: > Could you cc the list when you do alert (I assume) the acpi list (if > you have not already). I'm looking to see if a proper patch does come > out of this that it get pushed into the distros (for my interest it's > Ubuntu Hardy) prior to 2.6.25 release.
That's doubtful. Let's see what Len wants to do with this... But as soon as there is a patch or a decision of some sort, I will post to the lists. > I looked in drivers/acpi/osl.c ... and noticed in > dmi_system_id_acpi_osl_dmi_table(), 2 matches that they use. Though I > am unsure about a prober match for this. The issues you have is the > laptop is vendor LENOVO and the Version ThinkPad T61. But obviously > not all LENOVO laptops will not use this (or will they?) .. and your > going to want to have a Version that is more then T61. I assume most > if not all future Lenovo laptops will be following this standard. I'd just whitelist all with vendor LENOVO and Version ThinkPad*. But that's my opinion, and I doubt Len (the ACPI maintainer) would agree (and he *does* have good reasons not to). For now, it is best if users simply add the acpi_osi parameter. -- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
