Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Frederik Schueler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems?
> > 
> > It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case
> > basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> 
> This looks like a good idea to me, do we know which models are affected?
> OTOH, I doubt we have a complete list of affected models, 

Since HP supports Debian officially now, I'm sure Dann or someone else from
HP can provide us a list of affected models.

If not, we can contact Len Brown to get the ACPI-OEM-ID for HP and
blacklist all HP models.

> and who knows what problems may arise for yet to be released laptops...

Well, even Debian can't predict the future :-)
Plus, we can still address these in point updates.

Cheers,
        Moritz