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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ACPI documentation in kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:27:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302172715.GA9157@strauss.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada4pp4mttf.fsf@cisco.com>

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Hello,

* Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> [2007-03-02 00:23]:
>  > Add hint that acpi=off doesn't work on IA64.
> 
> Would it make sense to add code to detect this and print a kernel
> message like
> 
>     warning: ACPI is always enabled on IA64; ignoring "acpi=off"
> 
> No one reads documentation :)

The idea is not bad, but it should not make sense to have it only for
ACPI and not for other arch-specific options ...


Regards
Bernhard

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 23:16 [PATCH] Fix ACPI documentation in kernel-parameters.txt Bernhard Walle
2007-03-01 23:23 ` Roland Dreier
2007-03-02 17:27   ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
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2007-03-02 17:30 Bernhard Walle

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