[Kernel-handbook-general] [PATCH 2/7] Remove outdated advice to try disabling ACPI and IRQ routing options

[Ben Hutchings]

With current hardware and kernel versions, this will usually cause
problems rather than solving them.
---
 chapter-bugs.sgml |   19 -------------------
 debian/changelog  |    1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter-bugs.sgml b/chapter-bugs.sgml
index f71a5be..d417d85 100644
--- a/chapter-bugs.sgml
+++ b/chapter-bugs.sgml
@@ -361,25 +361,6 @@
 	  a metapackage (e.g. <package>linux-image-686-pae</package>).
         </item>
 	<item>
-	  <em>Bugs involving ACPI.</em> While ACPI (Advanced Control
-	  and Power Interface) support in Linux kernel has matured
-	  greatly in the 2.6 series, it occasionally causes problems
-	  (misrouted interrupts, failure to go into or return from the
-	  sleep/hybernation/suspend mode, thermal problems) on newer laptop models. They
-	  may be caused both by bugs in the kernel code or (more
-	  likely) in the ACPI interface of a particular machine. As
-	  resolution of such bugs requires access to the machine in
-	  question, it is pretty unlikely that kernel team will be able
-	  to do something about it. Consider reporting the problem to
-	  the <url
-	  id="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-acpi"
-	  name="Linux ACPI mailing list"> along with the submission to
-	  the Debian BTS. As a workaround, try booting the kernel with
-	  some combination of boot options <tt>acpi=off</tt>,
-	  <tt>pci=norouteirq</tt>, <tt>pci=noacpi</tt>, and
-	  <tt>nolapic</tt> to see if that improves the situation.
-	</item>
-	<item>
 	  <em>Bugs involving tainted kernels.</em> If a kernel
 	  crashes, it normally prints out some debugging
 	  information, indicating, among other things, whether the
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 65b6d5e..62ef168 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ kernel-handbook (1.0.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Use 3.x version numbers and current flavour and featureset names in
     examples
   * Refer to the linux source package rather than linux-2.6
+  * Remove outdated advice to try disabling ACPI and IRQ routing options
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>  Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:26:30 +0000
 
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1.7.10.4



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