From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031677AbWLASuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:50:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031707AbWLASuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:50:00 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:62398 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031677AbWLASt7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:49:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:56:57 +0000 From: Alan To: Ben Collins Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel Subject: Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline Message-ID: <20061201185657.0b4b5af7@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1164998179.5257.953.camel@gullible> References: <1164998179.5257.953.camel@gullible> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:36:19 -0500 Ben Collins wrote: > I'd be willing to bet that most distros have this patch in their kernel. > One of those things we can't really live without. This has been suggested various times before. | +Before you run away from customising your DSDT, you should note that | already +corrected tables are available for a fair amount of computers | on this web-page: +http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt Generally without copyright permission from the owner of the copyrighted work in question to have it modified and redistributed. The whole approach of using filp_open() not the firmware interface is horribly ugly and does not belong mainstream. Alan