From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding ACPI support in 2.6.21
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:03:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F56BD5.6040408@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070312154649.5f661a39@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> I think it might be better to give up ACPI support in 2.6.21 and target
>> 2.6.22. What do you think?
>
> I removed it from my tree already so that I can actually use libata and
> do real work. The "crash every non PCI controller" feature in the current
> ACPI hacks means PCMCIA and ISAPnP do not work any more with libata.
It sounds like your tree is out-of-date. Your patch to fix that went in
days ago, applied by Linus directly:
commit ca4266359d0c1199af088447f209ab5bcc32a989
Author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu Mar 8 23:13:50 2007 +0000
[PATCH] libata-acpi: Try and stop all the non PCI devices crashing
> In its current state it should be disabled, its broken, its wrong.
Does the above change your opinion any?
I lean towards disabling it by default in 2.6.21 anyway, but am
interested in hearing an updated opinion on what's actually in the
public tree.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-12 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-12 14:32 regarding ACPI support in 2.6.21 Tejun Heo
2007-03-12 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-12 15:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-12 17:01 ` Alan Cox
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