On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> > Don't think this patch should go in as Lenovo is issuing a BIOS to
> > address this issue. On these Thinkpads listed and more. Seems to add
> > uneeded quirks in my opinion.
> > 
> > Though some over all patch may be good for all machines. As Windows
> > seems to be setting this bit on it's own.
> 
> It's a perfectly safe workaround that's limited to a well-bounded set of 
> machines and fixes a pretty serious problem with them. While I'd prefer 
> my approach and then a removal of the existing quirk entries, Alex's 
> patch makes more sense for stable. The BIOS update is as yet unreleased, 
> requires either Windows or an optical drive (which some of these 
> machines don't have) and is a far from discoverable solution to the 
> issue.

I could agree, but the only issue is if you go to the thinkpad-acpi or
ibm-acpi mailing list they would probably disagree as there have been
updates to the bios in the past required for proper functionality of
Thinkpads ;-) .. the bios update methods have not changed since then for
Thinkpads.

			Thanks,
				Jerone





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