From: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:06:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CEFD78.6050308@ed-soft.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060731224608.15b13b59.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton schrieb:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:26:15 +0200
> Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Morton schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200
>>> Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives
>>>> a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether
>>>> to use mmconfig or not fail.
>>> Sorry, you cannot do this. I already merged this patch into -mm, and
>>> followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.
>>>
>>> Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which
>>> Adrian and I prepared.
>>>
>>> If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a
>>> stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to
>>> Linus. But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed
>>> doesn't help anyone.
>>>
>>> Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions. See section 2 of
>>> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>> I see only one bugfix patch in your patches ( add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch )
>> which is now included in this patch.
>>
>
> I presently have
>
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix-2.patch
>
> and
>
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-tidy.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix-2.patch
>
> all of which you should have been cc'ed on.
>
> Anyway, unless there's a rush on this work, please check that everything
> looks OK in -mm as we head into 2.6.19-rc1.
>
Mea culpa. Looked at the wrong place. I checked the patches in mm and they look ok.
cu
Edgar Hucek
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 8:28 [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch Edgar Hucek
2006-08-01 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 5:26 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-08-01 5:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 7:06 ` Edgar Hucek [this message]
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