Include DSDT initrd patch?

[Patrick]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
[snip]
>  > 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.

While I understand your goal to reduce patchcount in FC kernels the DSDT
initrd patch is IMHO not a feature but a facilitator to fix DSDT bugs
and easily test the fixes. I have an Acer laptop and the DSDT in FC4's
2.6.12-1447 has a pretty annoying battery bug that fills up the console
and /var/log/messages. Afaik it only takes about three tweaks like
s/Z00I/Z001 to fix it. That's a few minor changes that requires me right
now to patch the FC4 kernel src.rpm and rebuild it. I have seen Len
Brown's feedback on this subject mentioned in Thorsten's post and I
respectfully disagree with him and it seems so do at least Ubuntu,
OpenSuSe and Mandriva. I hope you will include the patch in a future
FC4/Rawhide kernel release. RFE filed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169014

Regards,
Patrick