Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table

2008-02-24 Thread Éric Piel
24/02/08 02:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote/a écrit: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:45:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> As recommended by Christoph Hellwig, even if we can't rely on the userspace >>> firmware loader so early at boot, at least use normal syscall (as in >>> init/do_mounts_*.c). Simila

Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table

2008-02-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:45:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > As recommended by Christoph Hellwig, even if we can't rely on the userspace > > firmware loader so early at boot, at least use normal syscall (as in > > init/do_mounts_*.c). Similarly, use kfree() instead of ACPI_FREE(). > >

Re: [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table

2008-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Éric Piel wrote: > > As recommended by Christoph Hellwig, even if we can't rely on the userspace > firmware loader so early at boot, at least use normal syscall (as in > init/do_mounts_*.c). Similarly, use kfree() instead of ACPI_FREE(). So I'm missing a lot of the backgrou

[PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table

2008-02-23 Thread Éric Piel
21/02/08 19:46, Éric Piel wrote/a écrit: > In the mean time, here is a patch which should get the situation already > much cleaner. It has been tested on various configs (with and without > DSDT). Let me know if you think it is acceptable. > It seems the patch looks ok for people around so here is