[Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/8] pm-utils 1.2.3 proposed patches

[Michael Biebl]

2008/11/29 Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 2008/11/29 Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
>> > Mostly we want to spend the time and effort that's gone into this on
>> > making the kernel actually work properly, since the fdi approach doesn't
>> > scale in the slightest.
>>
>> Still better, than every user having to set the acpi_flags via the
>> boot prompt, which is even more effort than one user submitting a fdi
>> file.
>>
>> And having to support a mix from the kernel cmd line and quirks via
>> hal means more work for us.
>>
>> So this change actually saves us efforts.
>
> And forces a large set of users to reconfigure their systems.

I don't have numbers for that (and I doubt either have you), but my
guess is that not a lot of users that are using hal/pm-utils are using
acpi_flags via the kernel cmd line. So speaking of a large set of
users might be mildly exaggerated.

Michael

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