From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:00:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20081021140014.GA29330@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200810192350.57993.trenn@suse.de> <20081021130836.GA28154@srcf.ucam.org> <200810211534.44226.trenn@suse.de> <200810211601.56527.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:59801 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751347AbYJUOA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:00:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810211601.56527.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Thomas Renninger , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Len Brown , linux-acpi , Zhao Yakui , me@markdoughty.co.uk, linux-thinkpad , "devel@acpica.org" On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Moreover, as soon as the real fix is developed we can remove the DMI list. > Quite frankly, I don't see any downsides. The downside is that with the DMI list there's significantly less incentive to produce a "real" fix (assuming there is one). We've no idea how many other systems may be affected in one way or another. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org