Re: ACPI status in 2.4 tree

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:31:05PM +0100, wwp wrote:
> Hi Matthew Wilcox,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:05:15 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:46:38PM +0100, wwp wrote:
> > > How funny that people cannot say "yes" or "no" and prefer sending
> > > unclear answers :-\.
> > 
> > They're showing you how to find out for yourself.  You should be
> > grateful.
> 
> Hum maybe I wasn't clear in my words (sorry English is not my natural
> language). I meant that I use to look at the download site and the kernel
> changelog to find the latest ACPI code.
> 
> My question was not "where to find ACPI patches for kernel X or Y?". I was just
> wondering in *usually* kernel pre-releases and release candidates were waiting
> for latest acpi to be merged or if acpi development were not sync'ed but for
> stable releases. And if more precisely, the ACPI merging shown in rc2's
> changelogs mean that all the latest ACPI changes were merged to the kernel
> source (IOW: is is necessary to apply patches over 2.4.23-rc2 to get the
> latest ACPI stuff).
> 

Sorry for my unclear answer.  RC mean somehow code freeze, so there
is good luck that you will have only acpi fix merged.
To know what is really integrated in mainstream, you have to take a look
for the log.  That apply also for other kernel projects as well.

I hope I am a little bit more clear now.

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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