In the event you haven't see Linus's request to include bug-fixes only in 2.6.0 from here on out. I think that: 1. if bugzilla entries are associated with each patch, that will help make the case. 2. I should probably to create a linux-acpi-test-2.6.1 tree now to hold stuff that will need to wait for that release to open. thanks, -Len