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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: helgaas@ldl.fc.hp.com, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>,
	Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/17] PNP Lindent
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:49:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723154909.55862883.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707231639.57796.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:39:57 -0600
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:

> On Monday 23 July 2007 04:08:52 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:27:57 -0600
> > helgaas@ldl.fc.hp.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Run PNP files through Lindent.  These patches are all completely
> > > independent and contain no functional changes.  Object files before
> > > and after are identical.
> > > 
> > > These are against current upstream.  If you prefer a different base
> > > or drop some of these due to conflicts with things already in -mm,
> > > let me know and I can regenerate them.
> > > 
> > 
> > eep, this is the worst time for me to merge this stuff: I get to carry
> > large diffs against lots of files for two months.
> > 
> > The best time to do this would be late(ish) in the 2.6.24 merge window.
> > 
> > Can we do it then?
> 
> Sure.  I never know what the right time is.  Would that be after 2.6.23
> has come out, your big bunch-o-patches has gone to Linus, and shortly
> before 2.6.24-rc1?
> 

Yes, that works.  I was carrying a Lindent-UFS patch for a month and it
broke regularly.  But it was trivial to fix: I'd just rerun `Lindent
fs/ufs/*.c' to regenerate it.  Then reapply the manual-post-lindent-fixups
patch on top of that, and fix any remaining rejects.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23 21:27 [patch 00/17] PNP Lindent helgaas
2007-07-23 21:27 ` [patch 01/17] PNP: Lindent card.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:27 ` [patch 02/17] PNP: Lindent core.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 03/17] PNP: Lindent driver.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 04/17] PNP: Lindent interface.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 05/17] PNP: Lindent manager.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 06/17] PNP: Lindent quirks.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 07/17] PNP: Lindent resource.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 08/17] PNP: Lindent support.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 09/17] ISAPNP: Lindent core.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 10/17] ISAPNP: Lindent proc.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 11/17] PNPBIOS: remove unused bioscalls code helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 12/17] PNPBIOS: Lindent bioscalls.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 13/17] PNPBIOS: Lindent core.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 14/17] PNPBIOS: Lindent proc.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 15/17] PNPBIOS: Lindent rsparser.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 16/17] PNPACPI: Lindent core.c helgaas
2007-07-23 21:28 ` [patch 17/17] PNPACPI: Lindent rsparser.c helgaas
2007-07-23 22:08 ` [patch 00/17] PNP Lindent Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 22:39   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-23 22:49     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-23 22:53       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-23 23:00         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 16:24           ` Len Brown
2007-07-25 16:57             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-25 21:53             ` Andrew Morton

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