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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:35:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Your patch is also useful for the case of CONFIG_ACPI=n
> Worth keeping for that alone.

No. Could we please integrate this not with ACPI, but with the much more
limited "arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.c", which does NOT imply full ACPI,
only scanning the tables for information in static format (like the irq
routing stuff).

That we can/will/should always enable, and we should NOT EVER encourage
this kind of "per-BIOS" crud. That just becomes a total horror to maintain
in the long run.

Please?

		Linus

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