From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: generic initramfs table override support #3 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:19:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20091009201908.GA1139@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20091009195508.694274257@suse.com> <20091009195907.635574715@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:58521 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754804AbZJIUUA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:20:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091009195907.635574715@suse.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Mahoney Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9ric?= Piel , Jan Beulich , Thomas Renninger , "H. Peter Anvin" , Len Brown 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