Re: [GIT PATCH v3.1] thinkpad-acpi changes for the merge window (part 1)

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

Okay, 
previous series replaced with this one.

thanks,
-Len

On Sunday 23 September 2007 10:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Len,
> 
> Here is the third version (fixed) of the first batch of changes for
> thinkpad-acpi, targetted at the next merge window.   They're mostly
> non-critical fixes.
> 
> I have found a stupid bug on v2 and v2.1 of patch 6, and fixed it
> (hopefully correctly, this time). I am *really* sorry about that.
> 
> I have also added two new patches, that were going to be sent as part 2,
> but I might as well just send them in right now.
> 
> Patches 8 and 9 *fix* a big ABI problem with the way thinkpad-acpi was
> exporting the hwmon attributes, which precluded it from working with
> lm-sensors(!).  Since I am already touching the ABI, it also prepares
> the thinkpad-acpi sensors ABI for a module split (so I can shunt all the
> hwmon code to a new module later, and userspace won't even notice).
> 
> Please merge this batch to acpi-test.  It replaces previous versions of
> "thinkpad-acpi changes for the merge window (part 1)".
> 
> As usual, the patch set is available at:
> git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git for-upstream/acpi-test
> 
> Shortlog of the above branch:
> 
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (9):
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make room for more features in tp_features bitfield
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: issue EV_SYNC after EV_SWITCH
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add mutex-based locking to input device event send path
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: keep track of module state
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: check version of hot key firmware
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: dequeue all pending hot key events at once (v2.2)
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix regression on HKEY LID event handling
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a separate platform device for hwmon and name it
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: duplicate driver attributes to new hwmon pdrv
> 
> Thanks.
>