Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:37:41 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3] VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change |
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:39:22PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:21:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > So why isn't acpi handling all of this for us? > > for some people it does... > > > Do people not want to use acpi for some reason? > > I was told that in the past VIA has buggy/broken ACPI, so we need to > figure out what ACPI workaround Windows has and implement that (or > maybe they do it in the driver(s)?)
Then that sounds like an ACPI issue, instead of trying to create a quirk for the pci device itself.
Why not enable ACPI (which the manufacturer says is the way to go), and then work from there?
thanks,
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