Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271304AbUJVOnQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:43:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271300AbUJVOnP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:43:15 -0400 Received: from fisek2.ada.net.tr ([195.112.153.19]:44738 "EHLO embriyo.fisek.com.tr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271304AbUJVOl6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:41:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:41:54 +0300 From: Onur Kucuk To: Olivier Galibert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ? Message-Id: <20041022174154.2ebd2c5c.onur@delipenguen.net> In-Reply-To: <20041022122326.GA69381@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <20041022122326.GA69381@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1013 Lines: 34 On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:23:27 +0200 Olivier Galibert wrote: > What is the policy w.r.t broken DSDTs and the ACPI subsystem? > Specifically, which of these two options is right: > > 1- Provide a non-buggy DSDT to the kernel > 2- Make the ACPI subsystem tolerant of the bugs > > The option 3, have all biosen over the world fixed is a nice fantasy, > but nothing else. > > If 1, we need to put a mechanism for that in the official kernel. CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9 > If 2, I'll start working on patches to make the laptop I play with > work as-is. > > So, which it is? -- Onur Kucuk Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/