RE: [acpi-jp 3117] RE: ACPI-CA 20040311 imported

From: Nate Lawson (nate_at_root.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>

    On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Moore, Robert wrote:
    > There's nothing in the ACPI spec that precludes recursive methods.
    > However, I agree that it is a very scary thing to do. For this reason,
    > I have the iASL compiler issue a remark when it detects a recursive
    > method call.
    >
    > All AML interpreters that I know of implement nested and recursive
    > method calls without chewing up the kernel stack, i.e., a state is
    > allocated for each nested call and linked to the previous method state.

    Thanks for the info. I've disabled serialized methods by default now and
    left _OSI enabled by default. This matches the Linux approach.

    -Nate
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