Re: [PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled

[Ingo Molnar]

* Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > and now I understand the purpose of the check; pnpbios does not 
> > > depend on ACPI; ACPI/pnpacpi is incompatible with pnpbios.
> > 
> > wow, rather old bug - i guess lockdep made it more visible.
> 
> No, that commit was not a bug, it was correct, and still is, for 
> pnpACPI and pnpBIOS must be mutually exclusive.
> 
> The thing that changed was the RTC specific code.

ok. Vegard's patch/workaround got my test setup going, i'll drop it if 
something better comes along. (tip/out-of-tree commits dont get 
propagated into linux-next so it will not interfere with anything)

	Ingo
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