Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261569AbUJYGWT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261557AbUJYGWT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:22:19 -0400 Received: from fmr12.intel.com ([134.134.136.15]:55432 "EHLO orsfmr001.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261569AbUJYGVf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:21:35 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Buggy DSDTs policy ? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:21:09 +0800 Message-ID: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041ABFE0@pdsmsx403> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Buggy DSDTs policy ? Thread-Index: AcS4VRPVZDmcSROJSTuKokV7kHFJKQCBUAyQ From: "Yu, Luming" To: "Pekka Pietikainen" , "Xavier Bestel" Cc: "Onur Kucuk" , "Olivier Galibert" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2004 06:21:09.0685 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1707E50:01C4BA5A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Yes, sure. But real non-technical people won't replace their DSDT >> either. >Their distro could do it for them :-) A simple approach would be to >store md5sums of known-bad dsdt's and xdeltas to fixed ones, and the >fixed one gets placed in /etc where mkinitrd automagically picks it up >whenever a new kernel is installed. I don't think distro can do that, because they are not the owner of DSDT. - 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/