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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:22:10 GMT
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/141353: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated
Message-ID:  <200912102122.nBALMA9b096271@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200912102130.nBALU7jj063700@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         141353
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 10 21:30:07 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bruce Cran
>Release:        8.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD router.draftnet 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 10 14:21:42 GMT 2009     brucec@router.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER  i386
>Description:
/sys/i386/conf/NOTES says that building acpi into the kernel is deprecated, and should be loaded as a module. However, acpi is built into GENERIC.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read /sys/i386/conf/NOTES
>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- NOTES.orig	2009-12-10 21:13:37.000000000 +0000
+++ NOTES	2009-12-10 21:13:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -463,9 +463,6 @@
 # kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
 # Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
 # defined when it is built).
-#
-# Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is
-# normally loaded automatically by the loader.
 
 device		acpi
 options 	ACPI_DEBUG


>Release-Note:
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