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SubjectRe: 2.6.18 suspend regression on Intel Macs
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Le mardi 10 octobre 2006 à 08:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> > If we do this we probably should at least key this of some DMI
> > identification for the mac mini..
>
> No. That would be silly.
>
> Having _conditional_ code is not only bigger, it's orders of magnitude
> more complex and likely to break. It's much better to say: "We know at
> least one machine needs this" than it is to say "We know machine X needs
> this", because the latter has extra complexity that just doesn't buy you
> anything.
>
> It's much better to treat everybody the same, if that works. That way, you
> don't have different code-paths.

So what's the plan? Should/Will the ACPI guys remove the bit-preserving
change brought in with the latest ACPICA merge?

Fred.

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