Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] acpi: Add IBM R60E laptop to proc-idle blacklist

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:33:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +	{ set_max_cstate, "IBM ThinkPad R40e", {
> > +	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "IBM"),
> > +	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "1SET70WW") }, (void*)1},

> It seems that every R40e in the world is in that table.
> 
> Can/should we wildcard it?  From my reading of dmi_check_system(), we can use
> "" in place of the "1SET..." string and it'll dtrt?

Wouldn't that result in every machine with "IBM" as the BIOS vendor 
having their maximum c-state limited?
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