linux-kernel - Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

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Message-ID: <20060803202807.GA7712@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:28:07 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>, v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:25:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT seems to be the most interesting case.
> It's anyway not usable for distribution kernels, and AFAIR the ACPI 
> people prefer to get the kernel working with all original DSDTs
> (which usually work with at least one other OS) than letting the people 
> workaround the problem by using a custom DSDT.

Not true at all.  For SuSE kernels, we have a patch that lets people
load a new DSDT from initramfs due to broken machines requiring a
replacement in order to work properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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