From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [patch 02/14] ACPI: Atlas ACPI driver Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:44:54 -0400 Message-ID: <200608181044.55097.len.brown@intel.com> References: <200608150537.k7F5bMHZ011530@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200608152313.56558.len.brown@intel.com> <756b48450608170048n4d4941c2s349f44883628df9a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Len Brown Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:494 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030437AbWHROn1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:43:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <756b48450608170048n4d4941c2s349f44883628df9a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jaya Kumar Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, dtor_core@ameritech.net, luming.yu@intel.com On Thursday 17 August 2006 03:48, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 8/16/06, Len Brown wrote: > > Andrew, > > Please delete this patch from MM -- it is stale. > > Jaya, please send Andrew the newer patch that replaces it -- the one > > that doesn't touch drivers/acpi. > > > > thanks, > > -Len > > Hi Len, > > I had sent that on June 26 to everyone on the CC list. Archive link is here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115391161115058&w=2 that patch was an incremental depending on the previous patch. Please send just the final patch vs 2.6.18-rc4 to the above, also cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Also, Dmitry had asked what we should do about handing ACPI errors to > upper layers here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115392091425952&w=2 Dmitry has a good question and we need to iron it out for the general case. I recommend that for your driver you simply do something like this for now: if (ACPI_ERROR(status)) status = -EINVAL and get your driver into the mm tree to find the next problem. thanks, -Len