From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"seth.forshee@canonical.com" <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
"joeyli.kernel@gmail.com" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>,
"daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ACPICA: Add interface for getting latest OS version requested via _OSI
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:42:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10189900.qsvQBSpnvI@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371508629.523.3.camel@x230>
On Monday, June 17, 2013 10:37:10 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 00:31 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > On Sunday, June 09, 2013 07:01:38 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Drivers may need to make policy decisions based on the OS that the firmware
> > > believes it's interacting with. ACPI firmware will make a series of _OSI
> > > calls, starting from the oldest OS version they support and ending with the
> > > most recent. Add a function to return the last successful call so that
> > > drivers know what the firmware's expecting.
> > >
> > > Based on a patch by Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> >
> > Bob (CCed) would prefer us to access acpi_gbl_osi_data directly instead of
> > adding the wrapper to ACPICA. He also thinks that the symbol definitions
> > should go into include/acpi/actypes.h rather than into acpixf.h.
> >
> > Then, the only ACPICA change would be to move the symbols and we can
> > add a Linux-specific patch on top of that adding the acpi_gbl_osi_data
> > wrapper.
>
> That sounds good to me. Do you want to respin that, or should I send an
> updated set?
That one should be fine, no need to respin [1/3] and [3/3].
Thanks,
Rafael
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 23:01 [PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Matthew Garrett
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] acpi: video: add function to support unregister backlight interface Matthew Garrett
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPICA: Add interface for getting latest OS version requested via _OSI Matthew Garrett
2013-06-17 22:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-17 22:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-17 22:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-18 0:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2013-06-25 23:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-02 13:56 ` [PATCH 0/2] Expose OSI version Aaron Lu
2013-07-02 13:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPICA: expose " Aaron Lu
2013-07-02 14:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / OSL: add a wrapper function to return " Aaron Lu
2013-07-03 21:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-04 1:24 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-05 19:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if firmware expects Windows 8 Matthew Garrett
2013-06-10 7:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-10 9:22 ` joeyli
2013-06-10 14:09 ` Alex Deucher
2013-06-14 6:47 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-14 17:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-14 17:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 1:26 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 1:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 1:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 4:14 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 4:14 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 4:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 12:29 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 12:29 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 15:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 18:29 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-15 18:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 20:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-15 20:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-07-05 12:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 20:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 21:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 22:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-06 5:45 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-06 13:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-07 13:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-07 13:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-08 8:00 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-13 0:46 ` [Update][PATCH] ACPI / video / i915: Remove ACPI backlight " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-15 2:36 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-15 11:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 3:24 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-16 11:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-15 13:06 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-15 13:06 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-15 23:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 7:45 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 7:45 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 13:32 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 13:32 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 17:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-16 17:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-16 22:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-17 5:16 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-17 5:16 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-17 11:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-17 12:03 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-17 12:03 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-06-10 11:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-10 13:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-10 13:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-11 13:08 ` Seth Forshee
2013-06-22 21:46 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 16:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 16:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-25 16:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 20:43 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 20:43 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 20:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:10 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:30 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:46 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-17 15:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-17 19:57 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-07-18 0:16 ` [Update][PATCH " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 0:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] ACPICA: expose OSI version Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 5:38 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 5:38 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 0:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPI / video: Always call acpi_video_init_brightness() on init Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 5:40 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 5:40 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 0:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8 Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-20 13:16 ` [Update][PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Felipe Contreras
2013-07-26 13:24 ` Jani Nikula
2013-07-29 18:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-30 5:03 ` Jani Nikula
2013-07-31 0:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-31 0:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 0:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 6:48 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-31 6:48 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-31 9:08 ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-07 7:44 ` Backlight control only in the kernel? Borislav Petkov
2013-08-07 9:03 ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-07 10:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-07 10:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-07 10:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-07 11:04 ` Borislav Petkov
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