The patch titled
     Remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the ACPI blacklist
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: Remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the ACPI blacklist
From: Tear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 and when I boot Linux, ACPI gets set up by only
acpi=ht.  dmesg shows the following line:

   DELL GX240 detected: force use of acpi=ht

Everything seemed to be fine.  However, I discovered that everything is not
fine.  The USB controller works so slowly that copying a few (uncached) 1
megabyte large photos from a USB-enabled digital camera takes many minutes
instead of a couple of seconds.

I am using Linux 2.6.21.1 on a Debian 4.0 ("Etch") system.

I thought that this might be related to ACPI.  So I tried to boot with _only_
"acpi=force" appended to the kernel command line.  Voila, the USB controller
started to work at full speed and copying photos from my digital camera took
only seconds.

I tested the system with "acpi=force" and could not find anything which did
not work.  So, can we please remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the blacklist in

..../arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c

?  The attached patch does just that: It removes Dell Optiplex GX240 from the
ACPI blacklist.

I thought that this might be related to interrupts and APIC as well.  (Note
that this is APIC, not ACPI.) I tried booting with _only_ "noapic" and
"nolapic" appended to the command line.  Again, the USB controller started to
work at full speed.

Cc: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c |    8 --------
 1 files changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c~remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist 
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
--- 
a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c~remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -971,14 +971,6 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata a
         },
        {
         .callback = force_acpi_ht,
-        .ident = "DELL GX240",
-        .matches = {
-                    DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Dell Computer Corporation"),
-                    DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "OptiPlex GX240"),
-                    },
-        },
-       {
-        .callback = force_acpi_ht,
         .ident = "HP VISUALIZE NT Workstation",
         .matches = {
                     DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

git-acpi.patch

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