From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758174AbYGUIoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:44:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755035AbYGUIn6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:43:58 -0400 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.6]:31203 "EHLO smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753980AbYGUIn6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:43:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:43:54 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Jan Beulich Cc: Andi Kleen , Takashi Iwai , robert.moore@intel.com, Len Brown , LKML Subject: Re: Endless ACPI errors on Linus tree (5b664cb235) Message-ID: <20080721084354.GB20258@basil.nowhere.org> References: <87od4vqvaj.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <4880DE15.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20080718165814.GF32051@basil.nowhere.org> <488460E0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488460E0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2008 08:43:51.0346 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6730920:01C8EB0D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > That would basically mean there's no way to use the v2 fields here - all > the code could do is report the inconsitency, but it would have to use > the v1 field in any case. That's really a shame, and as before I'm > somewhat hesitant to do so. The only way I could easily find myself > doing this would be to introduce a command line option controlling the > behavior here, but that would need to be done outside of the ACPICA > code I'd assume. > > Andi, Bob, Len? I think we should only use v1 FADT fields for now and ignore v2. -Andi