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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
