[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Michael Biebl]

2008/6/24, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:02 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
>  > On Montag, 23. Juni 2008, David Zeuthen wrote:
>  > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:32 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>  > > > The vast majority of machines will not resume without any quirks. As a
>  > > > result, it makes sense to try a reasonably safe set of defaults if there
>  > > > are none defined. Machines that explicitly require that no quirks be run
>  > > > can still define quirks.none.
>  > >
>  > > Sounds useful to me; any chance you can add a comment about this in the
>  > > fdi file including a reference to the thread before committing it?
>  >
>  > No, IMO it's not usefull. As already annotated: these quirks are no common
>  > quirks. If you take a look at the existing quirks this combination is never
>  > or only in rare cases used. It make absolutely no sense to add them to
>  > hal-info.
>
>
> Sure, maybe some of the unquirked systems only need a subset of the ones
>  Matthew selected ... but that's fine as they will resume even if there's
>  unused quirks. I cannot understand why you are hesitant to change
>  default behavior for unquirked machines. Let's back up a bit: do you
>  disagree with the premise that the vast majority of machines will need
>  quirks to resume?