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

Len Brown
2008-03-13T07:40:10Z

On Thursday 13 March 2008, 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?

Rafael files them in bugzilla, if they're not already there.
I close them when the patches hit upstream.
Simple, huh?

> 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.

that one is included in this batch, it is bugzilla 10100.

> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and.patch
>
> Fix logic error in asus_acpi.c

i'll look at that one.

> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and.patch
>
> Fix an overrun.

this is the same url as above.

> 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?

We're waiting for Andrea to return the ping on this one.

> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/acpi-set-flag-dock_undocking-when-triggered-via-sysfs.patch
>
> Fix a system lockup related to undocking.

I'm waiting for Kristen to Ack/Nak that one.

thanks,
-Len