Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271335AbUJVPVr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:21:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271331AbUJVPVr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:21:47 -0400 Received: from ee.oulu.fi ([130.231.61.23]:48778 "EHLO ee.oulu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271361AbUJVPU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:20:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:19:43 +0300 From: Pekka Pietikainen To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Onur Kucuk , Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ? Message-ID: <20041022151943.GA16874@ee.oulu.fi> References: <20041022122326.GA69381@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20041022174154.2ebd2c5c.onur@delipenguen.net> <1098456935.31003.77.camel@gonzales> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1098456935.31003.77.camel@gonzales> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:55:35PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9 > > But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is > impossible for a non-hacker. > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php has quite a few. The problem is getting the fixed dsdt in use without recompiling your kernel, since quite a few people, especially non-technical ones, use vendor kernels. There's an approach that uses initrd, but this isn't merged yet. I'd say it should be, assuming no better solution can be found. - 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/