Re: acpi=force safe?

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:49:12PM -0600, Nick Bartos wrote:
> >
> > Why not let user decide at boot time?  That easy to do so with syslinux
> > for example.
> 
> I do use syslinux, but these boxes are supposed to be shrink rapped
> solutions for customers where the user really just uses the web interface
> (and some of the boxes are headless), so having the user modify boot parms
> really isn't possible.  Also, the entire distro is based on a single
> config and upgrading overrites the bootloader config, so setting user
> defined defaults really wouldn't work.
> 
> As long as there aren't any changes in the linux acpi implementation that
> make a board stop working on an upgrade (obviously it will be tested on
> the inital install), then it should be fine.  How probable is it for that
> to happen?  If the hardware is unchanged I would hope that updating the
> kernel (with acpi=force) wouldn't prevent the system from booting.
> 

Well, you just have to implement a quality policy then, but I guess
you already have one.

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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