From: Luca Capello <luca-wlebWZzHoyE@public.gmane.org>
To: ML ACPI-devel
<acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Patches version problem
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:13:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404D98C6.6000305@pca.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078718463.2583.7.camel-D2Zvc0uNKG8@public.gmane.org>
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Hello Len,
on 03/08/04 05:01, Len Brown wrote:
> Luca,
> The 20040220 in the patch version is the ACPICA version number -- the
> version of the core AML interpreter, and it is updated only upon
> upstream updates to the interpreter.
>
> Sometimes the ACPI patch will update this number when it pulls a new
> version of the interpreter, but more often it will not.
thank you for the clear explanation, now I understood.
> If you're really intent on getting the latest w/o any confusion, then
> use bk rather than plain patches. details here:
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/README.ACPI
No, until now and I hope for a long time I continue to use the latest ACPI
release, so I'll catch a new ACPI patch only when you post a message like
'[BKPATCH] ACPI for 2.6' on this list ;-)
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-06 13:12 Patches version problem Luca Capello
[not found] ` <4049CE4F.9090409-wlebWZzHoyE@public.gmane.org>
2004-03-08 4:01 ` Len Brown
[not found] ` <1078718463.2583.7.camel-D2Zvc0uNKG8@public.gmane.org>
2004-03-09 10:13 ` Luca Capello [this message]
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