The patch titled acpi: fix boot with acpi=off has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi: fix boot with acpi=off From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> With acpi=off and acpi_ac/battery compiled into kernel, acpi breaks boot. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/ac.c | 2 ++ drivers/acpi/battery.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/acpi/ac.c~acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off drivers/acpi/ac.c --- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c~acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off +++ a/drivers/acpi/ac.c @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ static int __init acpi_ac_init(void) { int result; + if (acpi_disabled) + return -ENODEV; acpi_ac_dir = acpi_lock_ac_dir(); if (!acpi_ac_dir) diff -puN drivers/acpi/battery.c~acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off drivers/acpi/battery.c --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c~acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off +++ a/drivers/acpi/battery.c @@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ static int __init acpi_battery_init(void { int result; + if (acpi_disabled) + return -ENODEV; + acpi_battery_dir = acpi_lock_battery_dir(); if (!acpi_battery_dir) return -ENODEV; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from pavel@xxxxxx are acpi-fix-boot-with-acpi=off.patch fix-broken-dubious-driver-suspend-methods.patch pm-define-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-pci-and-ide-handle-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-video-drivers-and-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-usb-hcds-use-pm_event_prethaw.patch pm-usb-hcds-use-pm_event_prethaw-fix.patch pm-issue-pm_event_prethaw.patch swsusp-do-not-use-memcpy-for-snapshotting-memory.patch swsusp-warning-fix.patch swsusp-write-timer.patch swsusp-write-speedup.patch swsusp-read-timer.patch swsusp-read-speedup.patch swsusp-read-speedup-fix.patch swsusp-read-speedup-cleanup.patch swsusp-read-speedup-cleanup-2.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html