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

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Message-Id: <200707252340.46505.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:40:46 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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,

You are kidding, right?  CPU hotplug is broken big time; it kills a machine 
like virus-scanner.  I always turn it of as a rule.  And now you want 
STR/STD to be dependent on it?  Even on UP?  Why?


Thanks!

--
Al

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