Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc5

Zhang, Rui
2008-03-13T07:02:47Z

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:36 -0400 Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > please pull from:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release
> >
> > A bunch of small regression fixes, bug fixes, and a couple of minor cleanups.
>
> I hope Rafael knows how to cross-reference the regression fixes against his list?
>
>
>
> I'm sitting on five ACPI patches which look like they (or alternatives?) should
> be in 2.6.25:
>
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/acpi-ec-revert-208c70a45624400fafd7511b96bc426bf01f8f5e.patch
>
> This was too poorly changelogged for me to remember what problem it
> solves, but it seemed important at the time.
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and.patch
>
> Fix logic error in asus_acpi.c
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and.patch
>
> Fix an overrun.
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/revert-acpi-thermal-fixup.patch
>
> Hopeully fix a regression which Andrea Arcangeli hit. Although I'm not sure
> that he has confirmed that this revert actually works?
Well, the patch looks good, this may be caused by a BIOS problem.
anyway, I wish to get the response from Andrea so that I can do some
investigation ASAP.

thanks,
rui