Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162057AbWLAWCA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:02:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162059AbWLAWCA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:02:00 -0500 Received: from outgoing1.smtp.agnat.pl ([193.239.44.83]:29312 "EHLO outgoing1.smtp.agnat.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162057AbWLAWB7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:01:59 -0500 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Organization: SelfOrganizing To: Alan Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:01:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel References: <1164998179.5257.953.camel@gullible> <1165006694.5257.968.camel@gullible> <20061201215551.66b6eb60@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061201215551.66b6eb60@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612012301.20086.arekm@maven.pl> X-Authenticated-Id: arekm Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 34 On Friday 01 December 2006 22:55, Alan wrote: > > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ? > > > > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"? > > Agreed. So how else can it be done? > > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling > > their own kernels. > > Legal rights to do so aside, do they ? Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and then load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even battery can't be monitored on sych notebooks) > and if they do does it have to be > an ugly hack in the mainstream kernel. Can it be done without hacks somehow (in the way that adding fixed DSDT is easy for user)? > Alan -- Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ - 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/