Re: ACPI status in 2.4 tree

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

Hi Ducrot Bruno,


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:18:28 +0100 Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.

You are. Thanx for the extra (verbose) clarification :-).


Regards,

-- 
wwp


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