Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:37:04 -0500 | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION/PATCH] acpi: blacklist win8 OSI for ASUS Zenbok Prime UX31A | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> If we can make the software behave consistently for 99% of the >> machines out there instead of only 90%, that's better. > > If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that > the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a > backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to > deal with that.
This is insanity; we can never guarantee 100% of anything.
Better is better. And 99% is better than 90%
% git grep quirks | wc -l 1585
Moreover, Linux already does quirks, and when there are quirks it means there's no 100% guarantee of the thing working as it should; hence the need for quirks, which is never complete, never 100%.
Anyway, screw the users, right? All you care about is that the code looks good to you.
If we care about the users, we would provide a consistent interface, where 0 means the same thing on all the backlight drivers. If all we can do is provide this consistency 99% of the time through quirks, that is the way to go.
-- Felipe Contreras
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