linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1



On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release
> 
> Fixes regressions -- a build failure, an oops, some dmesg spam.
> Also fixes some D-state issues and adds ACPI module auto-loading.
> Yes, I'd hoped to get the last two in before rc1.
> I'm hopeful that a couple-days into rc2 is sufficiently early for them.

I hate pulling this, but I did. However, what I hate even more after 
having done so is that ACPI now seems to select CPU hotplug. Why?

That is just *broken*. Sure, if you select STR or hibernation, we need CPU 
hotplug, but just for picking ACPI? Why?

		Linus
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