On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > 2008/11/29 Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. > > There's a difference between "encourage" and "break existing setups". > > Actually, it makes the results more sane and predictable. And breaks existing setups. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
