Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

Willy Tarreau (willy@w.ods.org)
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:00:39 +0100

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:02:03PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> While I take the point that we are talking about a stable kernel
> series, one shouldn't forget that ACPI is configurable :-)

So you mean that anything configurable should get into a stable kernel just
because users are not forced to configure it ?
Unless you have the time to add an option "old ACPI / newer ACPI", you cannot
guarantee that there's no risk to break something. If someone has a PC which
needs ACPI to boot, and only the older one, you'll break it. One of the next
pre-releases would be far more appropriate than an -rc.

BTW, I agree that recent ACPI releases seem far more reliable than the one
in vanilla kernel, and I would also be glad to get them in a near future, but
after .20.

Cheers,
Willy

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