Include DSDT initrd patch?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 22:38:10 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:41:52AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
 > 
 > >On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:02 +0200, Patrick wrote:
 > > 
 > >
 > >>Would the powers that be consider including in the next kernel the
 > >>appropriate patch from http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml which allows you
 > >>to fix buggy ACPI DSDTs and include them in the initrd so you don't have
 > >>to recompile the kernel every time you want to make a change? FWIW
 > >>Mandriva, SuSE and Ubuntu already use them.
 > >http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 > >
 > Might also push for inclusion in upstream kernel

This is the way forward here. I'm trying to reduce the
patchcount in fedora kernels, rather than increase it.
Especially when its a feature rather than a bugfix addition.

		Dave




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