Re: [PATCH V2] ACPI/Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 17:03:25 EST


On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 09:24:06 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:37:02PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 04:06:01 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:25:53PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > > Queued up as a fix for 3.13 (I fixed up the indentation).
> > >
> > > Ah, sorry, I missed this chunk of the thread. If the system provides
> > > valid _BIF data then we should possibly just fall back to that rather
> > > than adding another quirk table.
> >
> > The problem is to know that _BIX is broken. If we could figure that out
> > upfront, we woulnd't need the quirk table in any case.
>
> It's obvious that it is in this case - the package is the wrong size.

Then Tianyu should be able to come up with a better fix relatively easily. :-)

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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