Re: [BK PATCH] ACPI updates

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:58:52 +0000


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:47:05PM -0500, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:29:56PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > Well maybe that's what we should do - use the UnitedLinux ACPI patch (which
>
> No. What UL did was to put back the code you remove. YOU can do that
> better I'm sure, since you actively remove it in your patch;
> just not doing that is obviously simpler...

There's also a few other things in the UL patch Andi did iirc,
things like 'dont use ACPI if the BIOS date is <2000', which seems
to be a good universal crap-acpi-bios detector. (You can still override
this with a bootarg iirc)

Dave

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/