From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] acpi-cpufreq: fix multicore bug Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:58:51 +0400 Message-ID: <44CF09BB.7020605@linux.intel.com> References: <44CE4E0B.608@linux.intel.com> <20060731214950.GD31513@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060731214950.GD31513@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dave Jones Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:38:03PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > acpi-cpufreq.c | 98 > > +++++++++------------------------------------------------ > > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-) > > > > Fix a problem on a multicore processors. > > > > Signed-off: Denis Sadykov > > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy > > Can I get a little more verbose description for the changelog please ? > I think I understand whats going on here, but I'd like to understand > it more than "fix a bug" when I'm browsing the history 6 months from now. This is a fix for broken BIOSes, which report processors as hardware independent by not giving an optional _PSD object in CPU device. Without this patch we will not be able to set same frequency on every other processor (although it is already set by a shared state from first processor), so notifications will be missing. > Also, is there any way you can make thunderbird not send mails > with format=flowed in your Content-type: ? mutt respects this attribute > and handily word-wraps your diffs. (Which doesn't matter for applying > them, but it does make it a pain when reviewing). Set row width to fixed 80, don't know if it helps... Thanks, Alex.