Re: [PATCH] ACPI: add "auto" to acpi_enforce_resources

[Hans de Goede]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:57:16PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
 year (I think the info is available, right?) We could
> > default to strict for systems with year >= 2009. This may still prevent
> > users from getting the best out of their system, but at least won't
> > cause a regression for users of older systems where the native driver
> > has been used so far. I know it's not an ideal solution, but ACPI
> > implementations aren't ideal either.
>
> The problem with this approach is that we still end up with a large 
> number of malfunctioning machines. Really, I don't think there's any way 
> to handle this other than defaulting to strict, letting the default be 
> changed at run and boot time and printing a message when a driver is 
> refused permission to bind. Distributions that want to obtain the 
> previous behaviour can change the default back.

For the record we have changed the default to strict in Fedora's 
development branch, for 2 weeks or so now, including in the recently 
released Fedora 11 release and we've had 0 complaints so far.

Regards,

Hans
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