From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269352AbUJLAAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:00:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269358AbUJLAAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:00:55 -0400 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:12197 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269352AbUJLAAy (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:00:54 -0400 Message-ID: <416B1BB8.7020401@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:48:08 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List , "Brown, Len" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) References: <416A5857.1090307@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>ACPI still explodes on my old PII and stops it booting. (I've reported it >>to Len a few times but he seems to be ignoring me). > > > I suspect the "CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR" might be the solution they came > up with. Old ACPI stuff tends to be broken. > True. I am using acpi=force afterall. > That said, your patch is small and simple, so.. > OK you've merged it... well thanks. I guess considering I'm the only one seeing this, it isn't going to impact anyone but me. Probably avoiding an oops is a good thing even if it is due to broken hardware.