Custom DSDT Table in the fedora kernel at boot time

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:31:50 -0800
"Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Joshua C. <jjj123jjj at hushmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> You missed a very important point.  Its not just bleeding edge... but
> sustainable bleed-edge.
> We work closely with upstream. And in the case of this specific kernel
> patch. Doesn't everyone benefit by getting that patch into the
> mainline kernel?
> 

said upstream patch was merged by Linus for a short while and then
reverted for quality reasons.... so that would be a strong indication
of "maybe not a good idea"

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