Re: BIOS/ACPI interrupt conflict

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:54:08PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>       I note that at the time, I received strong objections to my patch on
> the grounds that it didn't account for bioses which didn't setup the
> interrupts and reported that they had.  That's true, but in my patch, you
> had to build a custom kernel and add the option ACPI_BELIEVE_BIOS to turn it
> on.

In general, and in my opinion, we definitely do not want such "tunable"
options, especially for something as essential as this. I have already
cleaned most of these "options" from the acpi(4) stack, and in the long-run
the remaining ones should be removed as well.

- Jukka.