Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:49:16 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" |
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> Now, what should we do about it? Add a quirk to always define the Linux OSI > string on ThinkPads (based on DMI information)? All IBM ones (which won't > have BIOS revisions anymore, anyway) deal well with it, and Lenovo ones > seem to benefit from it.
If Lenovo systems do the right thing then I guess submit a patch which checks for a DMI identifier string for Lenovo and if so don't lie to the ACPI interpreter.
Alan
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