Re: [PATCH 1/2] acer-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled

[Carlos Corbacho]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:41:42 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> > 
> > WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is
> > disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash.
> 
> Shouldn't "wmi_has_guid()" just return false if ACPI isn't enabled, and 
> the drivers should just then always give up?

Yes - that's a better fix.

-Carlos
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