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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:29:07 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix
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Dave Jones wrote:

> 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.


No argument here, but I'd love to use my cardbus NICs in my VAIO
one way or another in the next stable kernel!


> 
> 


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