On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:07 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:17 -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > > [skipped] > > Those tables have the same OEM id then the original ones, right? > > Tables with the same OEM id (the original ones) should get ignored later > > automatically. IIRC I had some problems with dynamically loaded tables, > > don't know anymore, they are not that often used and theoretically it > > should just work for them also. > > > Comparing SSDT by their OEM ID is proved to not work. Right now, > code checks the whole length of the table to be the same, and only then > does not load it. It is not the case with any of modified tables, so > original tables will be tried to load as well. Ahh, now when you say it, I remember about this darkly... What a pity..., maybe just comparing the whole header (without the checksum) could be an option? Or only do this if dsdt_got_overridden flag is set (ugly, but should be sufficient). Thomas > > I haven't tried too much here, but SSDTs are used more and more often (I > > saw a machine with 12 SSDTs, especially on IA64 there might be dozens in > > the future). We should think about the problem now, before we have bugs > > and need to write down half a book how the reporter finally could > > provide some useful information. > > > > > > Have I overseen something? Damn, I have :( Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
