Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux"

[Alan Cox]

> 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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