Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition

From: Linda Knippers
Date: Thu Aug 27 2015 - 13:09:17 EST


On 8/27/2015 1:04 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> I know this seems like a nit but we've going to live with this stuff for
>> a long time.
>
> Along those lines, Bob just came by my office and gave me a decisive
> argument that I think trumps my ABI concerns, and one I'd be willing
> to argue for 4.2 inclusion. Some BIOS implementers may do the work to
> get the polarity correct others may just read the flag name and get it
> wrong. Once that happens the field loses all meaning regardless of
> whether Linux interprets it correctly.

BIOS developers, BIOS testers, and the OS folks working with those teams
will be grateful.

Thanks,

-- ljk



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