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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] ACPICA: New: Portable acpidump utility (get system ACPI tables)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:06:24 +0200
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To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com>, "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>, linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 06:53:42 PM Moore, Robert wrote:
> Please don't drop this if it is indeed the acpidump utility.

Well, that's unclear to me to be honest. :-)

> This utility is now a part of ACPICA and should replace the existing utility.

OK, but we need to tell the users how to build it.

Thanks,
Rafael


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@sisk.pl]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 4:10 PM
> > To: Len Brown
> > Cc: Zheng, Lv; Wysocki, Rafael J; Moore, Robert; Brown, Len; linux acpi
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] ACPICA: New: Portable acpidump utility (get
> > system ACPI tables)
> > 
> > On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 01:07:50 PM Len Brown wrote:
> > > > This utility dumps the system ACPI tables in an ascii format
> > > > suitable for extraction via the acpixtract utility.
> > >
> > > This commit message does not match the contents of the patch, or
> > > explain how this patch is related (or not) to the acpidump utility
> > > already in the kernel tree under tools/power/acpi/acpidump/
> > >
> > > Naked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> > 
> > Well, I was on the verge of dropping this one before, so dropped now.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > I speak only for myself.
> > Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
> 
-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.