Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again)

Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-13T03:30:04Z

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Hi Len,

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:58:06 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > Ingo,
> > If you don't mind, I'd like to continue to keep a version
> > of the acpi-reset-default patch in my test tree so that
> > it is seen by linux-next. Once I have something that
> > I think merits upstream inclusion, I'll send a request
> > to you. Will that work?
>
> It's fine to me - although i'm a bit uncomfortable about keeping a
> known breakage in linux-next.
>
> linux-next is not really there to experiment around, it's there to
> push the known stable stuff to. linux-next has enough trouble with
> _unintended_ breakages.
>
> At least that's how i push patches to linux-next - i've Cc:-ed Stephen
> and Andrew if there's a clarification needed.

See my posting yesterday about procedures for linux-next. It is really
only for integration testing. If your code does not "merit upstream
inclusion", then it should not be in linux-next.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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