Re: latest ACPI patch vs 2.6.17-rc4

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:49:14PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
 >  
 > > > Note that I removed the acpi_in_resume workaround, so 
 > > > you'll get some oops'
 > > >  during resume, until we replace it with something else.
 > >
 > >Which you intend to do before .17 final I assume?
 > >Seems funny to be ripping something out without a replacement fix.
 > 
 > Hi Dave,
 > the acpi patch flow is that the acpi git tree gets pulled into -mm.
 > 
 > patches that survive -mm get cherry picked  and sent to linus
 > within the 1st two weeks of his release cycle.
 > 
 > (exceptions for critical bug fixes, of course)
 > 
 > So removal of acpi_in_resume is in -mm, but is not in linus,
 > and it will not be pushed to linus until this issue is addressed.
 > I expect this to take place at the start of .18.
 > I don't have any plans to push any significant patches (certainly
 > no clean-up patches) to .17.

Ok, I was just having a panic attack fearing the worst when I pushed
out a .17 update for Fedora users :-)

		Dave

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