Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936043AbWLDL3x (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:29:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936044AbWLDL3x (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:29:53 -0500 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:35723 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936043AbWLDL3w (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:29:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:58:46 +0100 From: Stefan Seyfried To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Alan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Collins Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Message-ID: <20061204105846.GA17953@suse.de> References: <1164998179.5257.953.camel@gullible> <20061201185657.0b4b5af7@localhost.localdomain> <1165001705.5257.959.camel@gullible> <1165002345.3233.104.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1165006868.5257.972.camel@gullible> <1165009747.3233.108.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1165012538.5257.992.camel@gullible> <1165045552.3233.132.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1165045552.3233.132.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Operating-System: openSUSE 10.2 (i586), Kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 30 On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:45:52AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > now here's another question... And a good one, indeed. > the ACPI layer got improved over the last > 18 months bigtime to behave more like windows in many ways. How much of > this is still really needed? I have not used a machine that really needed this for quite some time now. Usually even DSDTs that do not pass the "disassemble, then recompile with iasl"-test seem to work much better in practice than they did before. And seeing what stupid ideas people come up with (sharing DSDTs on acpi.sf.net _is_ stupid, since the DSDT usually depends on things you configured in your BIOS settings, memory size, etc.pp) it is probably a good idea to keep this patch out of mainline. It is usefull for debugging, sure, but somebody who can debug on this level should also be able to patch his kernel :-) -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N?rnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." - 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/