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Subject: RE: [BK PATCH] ACPI updates
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 18:39, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Is your concern with the code, or the cmdline option? We could certainly
> keep the same cmdline option "acpismp=force" if that is the issue, but that
> always seemed like kind of a strange name for the option, to me.

strange or otherwise - changing it in 2.4 is a bad idea - keeping it as
well as the 2.5 option is safer. 2.4 should continue to work on upgrades
as people expected it to - conservatism is the key. I think thats why
Arjan is arguing as he does

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