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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:56:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201185657.0b4b5af7@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164998179.5257.953.camel@gullible>

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:36:19 -0500
Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'd be willing to bet that most distros have this patch in their kernel.
> One of those things we can't really live without.

This has been suggested various times before. 

| +Before you run away from customising your DSDT, you should note that
| already +corrected tables are available for a fair amount of computers
| on this web-page: +http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt

Generally without copyright permission from the owner of the copyrighted
work in question to have it modified and redistributed.

The whole approach of using filp_open() not the firmware interface
is horribly ugly and does not belong mainstream. 

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01 18:36 [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Ben Collins
2006-12-01 18:56 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-01 19:35   ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 19:45     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 21:01       ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:49         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 22:35           ` Ben Collins
2006-12-02  7:45             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-04 10:58               ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-12-01 19:53     ` Alan
2006-12-01 20:58       ` Ben Collins
2006-12-01 21:55         ` Alan
2006-12-01 22:01           ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-01 22:17             ` Alan
2006-12-02 10:28               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 12:50             ` Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline) Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 17:34               ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-02 18:58                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-02  0:21         ` [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Dave Jones
2006-12-02 10:25           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 10:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-02 11:11   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 16:15   ` Sergey Vlasov

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