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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:12:44 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201171433260.3114-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:30PM -0800
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 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).

 I was under the impression that the Intel ACPI folks had things in
 mind for acpitable.c along the lines of 'rm', in favour of having 
 their new interpretor do a "Load, setup, get the hell out" approach
 for those that didn't want it staying around.

 Either way, I agree improving our ACPI support is a better solution
 in the long run.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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