From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
"Éric Piel" <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"Thomas Renninger" <trenn@suse.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@hera.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: generic initramfs table override support #3
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:19:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091009201908.GA1139@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091009195907.635574715@suse.com>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:10PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> This version provides the infrastructure to override any ACPI table, but
> only provides support for overriding DSDT. If other tables are desired,
> extending the support is trivial.
I'm really unenthusiastic about this. The majority of use cases appear
to be people working around Linux bugs and never reporting the bugs to
us, leaving everybody worse off.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 19:55 [patch 0/2] ACPI: generic initramfs table override support #3 Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-09 19:55 ` [patch 1/2] init: move populate_rootfs back to start_kernel Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-09 19:55 ` [patch 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: generic initramfs table override support #3 Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-09 20:19 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-10-10 14:08 ` Leo "costela" Antunes
2009-10-10 14:32 ` Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-10 14:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-10-10 15:37 ` Jeff Mahoney
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