Re: [PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-23 Thread Al Stone
On 01/23/2015 08:43 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Al, > > On Thursday, January 22, 2015 05:44:37 PM al.st...@linaro.org wrote: >> From: Al Stone >> >> The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. >> Instead of perpetuating past complications on new architectures,

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi Al, On Thursday, January 22, 2015 05:44:37 PM al.st...@linaro.org wrote: > From: Al Stone > > The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. > Instead of perpetuating past complications on new architectures, the > consensus amongst those writing the ACPI

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-23 Thread Al Stone
On 01/23/2015 08:43 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi Al, On Thursday, January 22, 2015 05:44:37 PM al.st...@linaro.org wrote: From: Al Stone al.st...@linaro.org The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. Instead of perpetuating past complications on new

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi Al, On Thursday, January 22, 2015 05:44:37 PM al.st...@linaro.org wrote: From: Al Stone al.st...@linaro.org The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. Instead of perpetuating past complications on new architectures, the consensus amongst those writing the

[PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-22 Thread al . stone
From: Al Stone The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. Instead of perpetuating past complications on new architectures, the consensus amongst those writing the ACPI specification and those using it seems to be to ultimately deprecate the use of _OSI. I plan to

[PATCH 0/7] Start deprecating _OSI on new architectures

2015-01-22 Thread al . stone
From: Al Stone al.st...@linaro.org The use of the ACPI _OSI method in Linux has a long and sordid history. Instead of perpetuating past complications on new architectures, the consensus amongst those writing the ACPI specification and those using it seems to be to ultimately deprecate the use of