From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] acpi: remove old blacklist entries Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:32:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20100217143245.GA18411@srcf.ucam.org> References: <201002022238.o12Mbx54018702@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20100216154053.GA31195@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:45576 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751685Ab0BQOcz (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:32:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, arekm@maven.pl, feng.tang@intel.com, flinco@libero.it, mad_soft@inbox.ru, rjw@sisk.pl On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > In the future, I'll consider deleting the "acpi=ht" > option all together, and the blacklist with it, > but such changes are always harder than expected. We seem to have no good history of where these blacklist entries came from, and we know that at least one of them is actively harmful. Perhaps replace them with a debug statement on affected machines telling people what they need to pass to restore the blacklist behaviour, and to let us know if it's necessary? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org