Re: [PATCH] pci: Don't enable aspm before drivers have had a chanceto veto it

From: Tomas Henzl
Date: Tue Jun 15 2010 - 11:29:14 EST


On 06/15/2010 05:18 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:11:59PM +0200, Tomas Henzl wrote:
>
>
>> Matthew, isn't it so that the POLICY_DEFAULT will pass the above test
>> and possibly switch the ASPM on?
>>
> Yes. We assume that the BIOS authors aren't actively malicious.
>
I originally thought your patch is about not enabling ASPM on broken
hardware (bios included) before the driver has a chance to change it.

Sorry for the confusion, I was wrong with the bios.

tomas


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