Re: ACPI source release updated (20030328)

[Kevin Fenzi <kevin-acpi-+bl/7iUgRMUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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>>>>> "P" == P Christeas <p_christ-U04EIuiosng@public.gmane.org> writes:

>> Thus wrote Grover, Andrew: > Fixed a problem where the error
>> message "Failed to acquire semaphore" > would appear during
>> operations on the embedded controller (EC).
>> 
>> Thanks for that!  I have one question though. Did you consider
>> doing incremental ACPI patches? I'm using a heavily patched kernel
>> with XFS filesystem support, and getting all these patches to work
>> and applying all the rejects manually is a real pain. Incremental
>> patches would really make life (mine, at least) easier. What do you
>> think about it?
>> 
>> (the above refers to the 2.4 kernel, with 2.5 changing so fast it
>> isn't really a problem)
>> 
>> Best regards,

P> I had thought of asking that as well. But it may be a pain for
P> Andrew to make those.  If you have all the source-patches you've
P> used, you might be able to do that yourself. Just get the
P> 'original' 2.4, patch it with 2 different ver's of ACPI and diff
P> those.. Then you could apply that diff as a patch to your
P> 'overloaded' ver of 2.4.

Yeah, there is also a package out there called 'interdiff'. Lets you
make a diff between two diff files. ;) 

interdiff acpi-20030321-2.4.21-pre5.diff acpi-20030328-2.4.21-pre6.diff > acpi.diff

It seems to get one reject on the acpi patches for some reason, but
that one looks cosmetic. 

Will try it on my heavily patched 2.4.21-pre5. ;) 

kevin
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