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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: ec_transaction(), second try
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:52:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060821155258.21bebc10.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060820222759.GA5369@curacao>

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:27:59 +0200
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> wrote:

> This is the second version of my patch which unifies the logic of
> ec_read() and ec_write() into ec_transaction(). Most things I wrote
> about the first version are still true:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115517205307700&w=2
> 
> The changes are:
> 
> - Updated for Kernel 2.6.18pre (Linus' GIT tree as of today)
> 
> - Fix a bad argument validity check in acpi_ec_poll_transaction() as
>   pointed out by Yu Luming.
> 
> - I unified the code in acpi_ec_poll_transaction() and
>   acpi_ec_intr_transaction() a little more. Both functions are now just
>   wrappers around the new acpi_ec_transaction_unlocked() function. The
>   latter contains the EC access logic, the two original
>   function now just do their special way of locking and call the the
>   new function for the actual work.
> 
> This patch is required for my MSI laptop support patch.
> 
> Based on Linus' GIT tree and should also apply to the current ACPI
> tree. 

This isn't a suitable description of this work.  Please review
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt, especially section
4 and then send (and maintain) a new changelog, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-20 22:27 [PATCH] acpi: ec_transaction(), second try Lennart Poettering
2006-08-21 22:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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