Re: ACPI patch process problems again

[matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>]

Hi,

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:51:13PM +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> 
>>Le Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:41:50 -0600, Matthew Wilcox a ?crit?:
>>
>>>ACPI ADDRESSn resources can describe both memory and port io, but the
>>>current code assumes they're descibing memory, which isn't true for HP's
>>>ia64 systems.
>>>
>>
>>There already a patch for that in -mm kernel
> 
> 
> Yes, the original author just contacted me to tell me.  It seems to me
> that we have a process problem when a bug gets fixed on March 28th,
> but not propagated upstream by June 10th.  That's almost 11 weeks,
> and I'm sure it'll be more by the time it's finally merged.  I thought
> the days of ACPI process problems were behind us ;-(

The problem is that this patch (and your patch) introduce a regression 
for some boxes.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6292 for more info.

I submited today a fix for this regression.

Matthieu