From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
initramfs@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
yinghai@kernel.org, eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl,
Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:27:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5060C234.80006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505DD65F.9080203@kernel.org>
On 09/22/2012 08:16 AM, Len Brown wrote:
> This isn't a NAK, but I'm at best, "like warm" on this.
>
> I'm not convinced it is a good thing to have - enabled by default -
> the ability for users to easily over-ride ACPI tables.
For the record: I'm fine with the implementation from a technical
standpoint now; I'm completely agnostic on the policy. Since Len is the
ACPI maintainer this is up to him.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-24 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 13:28 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1348234085-39220-3-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-21 20:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 20:56 ` Yinghai Lu
[not found] ` <CAE9FiQX64iRo9QjhEPYtEOhbEweKSmTssQ50VfPznWtHA345CQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-25 14:17 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-25 14:17 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-22 15:16 ` Len Brown
[not found] ` <505DD65F.9080203-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-23 1:17 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-23 1:17 ` Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <201209230317.04050.trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-23 4:25 ` Len Brown
2012-09-23 4:25 ` Len Brown
2012-09-24 6:40 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-24 9:21 ` Alan Cox
2012-09-25 15:25 ` [PATCH] ACPI: Only allow users with CAP_SYS_RAWIO rights to overwrite ACPI funcs at runtime Thomas Renninger
2012-09-24 18:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Matthew Garrett
2012-09-24 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-30 9:29 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1346318957-5831-3-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-30 9:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30 9:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-07-18 10:36 Early initrd file overwrite and ACPI table override making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-07-18 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
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