Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline

[Alan]

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:36:19 -0500
Ben Collins <ben.collins@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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