Re: ACPI status in 2.4 tree

[wwp <subscript-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Brown, Len,


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:09:15 -0500 "Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> We use BK to merge into the baseline kernel, so as of this morning,
> everything in the ACPI release tree
> http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net:8080/linux-acpi-release-2.4.23 is also in
> marcelo's 2.4 tree http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4 which is where
> 2.4.23-rc2 comes from.
> 
> So the patch on kernel.org is already obsolete, as it has already been
> applied to the 2.4.23 baseline.
> 
> This is not true for a base release that is frozen, such as 2.4.22
> because it stopped accepting patches long ago.  So for 2.4.22 (and soon
> 2.4.23) you'd grab the frozen base release and then apply the ACPI
> release patch on top of it to get the latest ACPI changes.
> 
> See this README for more info
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/README.A
> CPI
> and let me know if there is anything I can do or document that would
> clarify the process.

Thanx to all people for all those clarification. The more verbose ones
are really relevant and helpful.
Sorry if some people felt upset w/ my request or if my wish was misunderstood
'cause badly formulated :-\.


Regards,

-- 
wwp


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