On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:21:59PM +0100, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> wrote: > > > It's blindingly obvious that acpi=off is there to disable ACPI at boot. > > We either support that option or we don't -- none of this `oh, well you > > can use it in this specific case I suppose' rubbish. I'm not questioning > > your use-case, but there's really no need to talk about an `orderly > > adoption' when all you need to say is that your ACPI is busted and passing > > acpi=off lets you boot with a devicetree. > > Maybe we should set a taint bit or give some other indication that > we're using a flag to work around breakage.
That sounds like a good idea. Working around breakage is a fact of life, but the taint indicates that it's not the ideal behaviour. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
