Re: [1/5] reorganizes & code cleaning in acpi-cpufreq

[Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:41:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:07:53PM -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> 
>  > Some clean up and redsign of the driver. Mainly making it easier to add
>  > support for multiple sub-mechanisms of changing frequency. Currently this
>  > driver supports only ACPI SYSTEM_IO address space. With the changes
>  > below it is easier to add support for other address spaces like Intel 
>  > Enhanced Speedstep which uses MSR (ACPI FIXED_FEATURE_HARDWARE) to do the 
>  > transitions.
> 
> This patch-series fell at the first hurdle.
> 
> error: patch failed: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c:91
> error: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: patch does not apply
> 

This reject was coming from one earlier patch that hasn't gone it yet. The earlier bug fix patch had subject "acpi-cpufreq and software coordination".

> When you repost rediffed patchset, please make the subject of each patch
> in the series a unique description, as this gets used in the shortlog.
> 
> As this series failed, your subsequent patches
>  acpi-cpufreq: Make cpuinfo_cur_freq work again
> and
>  Use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF and get freq feedback from hardware
> 
> also failed. If you want to fold those into the other changes, or
> just send a complete rediffed 7-series patchset, I'll apply those.
>

OK. Did refresh of all these patches with 2.6.18-git. Will send a 8 patch 
patchset now.

Thanks,
Venki