Bug 141353

Summary: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated
Product: Documentation Reporter: Rebecca Cran <bcran>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: John Baldwin <jhb>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
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Description Rebecca Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-12-10 21:30:07 UTC 
/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.

Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
How-To-Repeat: Read /sys/i386/conf/NOTES
Comment 1 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-12-14 15:32:43 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Fix committed to HEAD.
Comment 2 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-12-14 15:32:43 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->jhb

Fix committed to HEAD.
Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-12-14 15:33:07 UTC 
Author: jhb
Date: Mon Dec 14 15:32:32 2009
New Revision: 200514
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200514

Log:
  Remove comment claiming that building acpi into the kernel is deprecated.
  
  PR:		docs/141353
  Submitted by:	Bruce Cran
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/sys/i386/conf/NOTES

Modified: head/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/i386/conf/NOTES	Mon Dec 14 13:23:33 2009	(r200513)
+++ head/sys/i386/conf/NOTES	Mon Dec 14 15:32:32 2009	(r200514)
@@ -469,9 +469,6 @@ device		tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator
 # 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
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Comment 4 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-10-12 17:25:07 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Fix merged to 7 and 8 a while ago.