[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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. 

What do you mean with unused quirks? 

> I cannot understand why you are hesitant to change 
> default behavior for unquirked machines. 

see my other comments.

> Let's back up a bit: do you 
> disagree with the premise that the vast majority of machines will need
> quirks to resume?

That's not the point. I know the most machines need quirks, but these quirks 
make IMO absolutely no sense in general.

Danny