Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:28:07 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>,
       v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Options depending on STANDALONE
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:25:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT seems to be the most interesting case.
> It's anyway not usable for distribution kernels, and AFAIR the ACPI 
> people prefer to get the kernel working with all original DSDTs
> (which usually work with at least one other OS) than letting the people 
> workaround the problem by using a custom DSDT.

Not true at all.  For SuSE kernels, we have a patch that lets people
load a new DSDT from initramfs due to broken machines requiring a
replacement in order to work properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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