Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x230: unhandled HKEY event 0x6050

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Mar 09 2013 - 17:13:29 EST


On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 05:49:13PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hmm, I don't follow. thinkpad-acpi does run on ring 0, so was that aimed at
> me?

Huh, is "thinkpad-acpi" the name of a part of a house? :-)

> Or are you complaining about the Win-8 bug-to-bug compatibility madness
> Lenovo added to the ACPI firmware?

Of course, I was simply ranting at the fact that hw vendors like lenovo
need to do all kinds of dancing in the BIOS just so they can get their
windoze certification. I know, I know, they don't have a choice and we
have more of those windoze workarounds in the kernel but we shouldn't.

Btw, what your signature says is very fitting to the occasion. :)

> --
> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> Henrique Holschuh

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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