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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: restrict early _PDC to opt-in platforms
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thanks for the focused patch, Alex.

If we expect to run into this issue more, perhaps
we should add a modparam to help handle debugging
and 2.6.33 DMI list maintenance.  The param and
the DMI list can both go away when we think we have
the real fix in 2.6.34.

applied.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center