From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932233Ab2IXU2L (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:28:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56724 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757981Ab2IXU2J (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <5060C234.80006@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:27:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Brown CC: Thomas Renninger , initramfs@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, yinghai@kernel.org, eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, vojcek@tlen.pl, Lin Ming Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging References: <1348234085-39220-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <1348234085-39220-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <505DD65F.9080203@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <505DD65F.9080203@kernel.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 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 09/22/2012 08:16 AM, Len Brown wrote: > This isn't a NAK, but I'm at best, "like warm" on this. > > I'm not convinced it is a good thing to have - enabled by default - > the ability for users to easily over-ride ACPI tables. For the record: I'm fine with the implementation from a technical standpoint now; I'm completely agnostic on the policy. Since Len is the ACPI maintainer this is up to him. -hpa