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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi support
	<acpi-support-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>,
	acpi-devel
	<acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] RE: [ACPI-sppt] merge acpi-support into acpi-devel?
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:59:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031004175940.GG24824@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE0CC875A-N2PTB0HCzHJF3Yvz3xaN/VDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:48:31AM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
> The archive shows that overall, acpi-support gets 18% the traffic that acpi-devel gets.
> 
> There are newbie questions on LKML, and there is a FAQ to help them.
> I don't see why we shouldn't follow that model.
> 
> The down-side of 2 lists is that people who post to acpi-devel will
> probably get better support, so one wonders what is the advantage of
> having 2 lists.

Personally, I'm really not interested in any of the x86 shitty BIOS IRQ
routing type issues.  I'm interested in the following ACPI things:

 - It has to work on ia64 (that's my day job).
 - Solving some of the impedence mismatches between what ACPI expects
   and what the core kernel provides (eg the PCI config space accessing,
   down_timeout(), etc).
 - Refactoring the ACPI code to work better.

Not that I expect the lists to be arranged for my benefit, but would
anybody else be interested in a list-split along the lines of

 - acpi-x86 (for x86 specific problems)
 - acpi-core (for everything else)

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-04 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-04 14:48 [ACPI-sppt] merge acpi-support into acpi-devel? Brown, Len
     [not found] ` <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE0CC875A-N2PTB0HCzHJF3Yvz3xaN/VDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
2003-10-04 15:59   ` Robert Vollmert
2003-10-04 17:59   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-06 21:51 [ACPI] " Brown, Len
2003-10-06 23:33 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)

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