I read these comments but they are from year 2004 and 2005. And the
propoced patch was in some of the 2.6.25-rc versions.
This is not an extra functionallity but the only option (for some
of us) to run linux on our laptops. The ACPI code is quite
difficult to play with, so I don't see any "nightmare waiting to
happen" here. If at the end there are so many bug reports connected
with DSDT, then just drop the patch again.
I don't see that much bug reports on opensuse, ubuntu and mandriva
complaining about a kernel panic based on broken dsdt. Maybe Dave
Jones should reconsider his opinion about it. Or at least try to
explain to the notebook producers that they should test their bios
to work with linux, too.
Fedora is supposed to be "on the bleeding edge". so i really don't
see any reasons against (at least trying to) inserting this patch
in some RCs. Lets see what'll happen. it is always possible to
revert the patch.
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