From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:27:32 -0700 Message-ID: <5060C234.80006@zytor.com> References: <1348234085-39220-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <1348234085-39220-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <505DD65F.9080203@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <505DD65F.9080203@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Len Brown Cc: Thomas Renninger , 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 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