From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932738Ab2CZOqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:46:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51984 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932489Ab2CZOqh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:46:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4F70812A.4080205@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:46:02 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Renninger CC: eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, dsdt@gaugusch.at, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Lin Ming , lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Implement overriding of arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd References: <1332512984-79664-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <201203260245.43177.trenn@suse.de> <4F6FC57D.3050404@zytor.com> <201203261619.31766.trenn@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <201203261619.31766.trenn@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/26/2012 07:19 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Do the names have to be fixed? No, I assume it would "all files inside this namespace". > If there is only one file where all ACPI table binaries are glued > together kernel/acpi_tables.binary.blob > my code should already work as good as unmodified. > > Not sure what is best and whether anybody cares about how the tables > are layed out. > > I guess I just wait until your functionality is in linux-next and > give it a closer look then and may come up with a new patch. I doubt it will get into linux-next without a user. If you have time to pull in the code I sent it will be quicker, otherwise I'll probably setup a git tree upon which things can be put. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.