Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:32:24 +0100 | From | Hans de Goede <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add "auto" to acpi_enforce_resources |
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Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:57:16PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > year (I think the info is available, right?) We could >> default to strict for systems with year >= 2009. This may still prevent >> users from getting the best out of their system, but at least won't >> cause a regression for users of older systems where the native driver >> has been used so far. I know it's not an ideal solution, but ACPI >> implementations aren't ideal either. > > The problem with this approach is that we still end up with a large > number of malfunctioning machines. Really, I don't think there's any way > to handle this other than defaulting to strict, letting the default be > changed at run and boot time and printing a message when a driver is > refused permission to bind. Distributions that want to obtain the > previous behaviour can change the default back. >
For the record we have changed the default to strict in Fedora's development branch, for 2 weeks or so now, including in the recently released Fedora 11 release and we've had 0 complaints so far.
Regards,
Hans
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