From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
"Joshua C." <joshuacov@googlemail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can a patch be merged upstream?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:37:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827233728.GH26610@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808280011.24839.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11:23AM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2008 00:09:39 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Linux can't work normally while Windows can work on such broken BIOS. Of
> > > course the issue is related with the broken BIOS. The _REG object of EC
> > > device is incorrect, which causes that EC device can't be initialized
> > > correctly.
> > > After this workaround patch is applied, Linux can also work. IMO this
> > > workaround patch is reasonable.
> >
> > Can you please submit it with proper description?
>
> It might also be worth CC'ing this patch (in its final form) to stable@.
I don't think it's stable material because it doesn't fix a serious Linux
bug.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 14:26 How can a patch be merged upstream? Joshua C.
2008-08-26 1:06 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-08-27 23:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 23:11 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-08-27 23:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-28 1:18 ` Zhao Yakui
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