Re: [ACPI] Little information for acpi user

[Pavel M. <pa...@su...>]

Hi!

>  > This info seems usefull to me... I believe it is neccessary to create
>  > blacklist entries, and it is certainly good to know if your board
>  > supports ACPI 1.0 or ACPI 2.0.
>  > 
>  > Please apply [feel free to kill info you don't think is
>  > neccessary...],
> 
>  Why is this needed to be done in kernel space at all ?
>  The approach we used for DMI tables would work here too.
>  Ie, userspace table-parser to print in user-parsable form
>  for bug-reports. No need to bloat kernel with this imo.

Well... at least acpi version and tables version should be there (for
blacklisting). Others can probably go. (Supporting userspace parser is
likely more code than just printing it.)
									Pavel
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