Early init patch breaks Dell laptops

[Daniel Drake <dsd-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Len,

I'm one of the maintainers of Gentoo's kernel packages. I recently added your 
ACPI early-init patch into our 2.6.8 patchset in order to solve the problems 
you addressed

http://bugs.gentoo.org/60565
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2941

After adding the "2.6.7 early init" patch, other users have run into 
ACPI-related problems (freezing on ACPI events). More specifically, Dell 
Inspiron laptops don't seem to like you :)

According to these users, the issue is also present in (unmodified) 2.6.9-rc3, 
and reverting out the early-init patch seems to solve the problem.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/66723
http://bugs.gentoo.org/66804
http://bugs.gentoo.org/66613

A bug has been filed at the kernel bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532

I hope this is useful- please ask if you need any more info.

Thanks,
Daniel


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