From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Stone Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ACPI: Integrate tools/power/acpi Makefile into tools Makefile. Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:48:34 -0700 Message-ID: <52D70232.2030809@redhat.com> References: <52D6BFA9.80609@redhat.com> <1A7043D5F58CCB44A599DFD55ED4C948452C20CD@FMSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24521 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354AbaAOVsg (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:48:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1A7043D5F58CCB44A599DFD55ED4C948452C20CD@FMSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Brown, Len" , "Zheng, Lv" , "Wysocki, Rafael J" Cc: Lv Zheng , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On 01/15/2014 02:43 PM, Brown, Len wrote: >> Is there any work going on to reconcile (or merge or ...) this >> version of acpidump with the version in upstream ACPICA? The >> sources are very different yet they seem to me to provide more >> or less the same functionality. > > Yes, that is exactly what is going on. > The acpidump in the kernel tree today is what we've been using for years. Right. > The acpidump in the ACPICA tree its newly developed replacement. > When we cut over to the new, it will replace the old. Ah, okay. > There is no big feature change here -- mostly the idea is > simply that more benefit from sharing the code maintained in the > upstream ACPICA source tree. > > cheers, > -Len > Thanks, Len. I suspected that might be the case. That's good to hear -- it makes my life a little easier maintaining the distro packages for the ACPCICA user space tools. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@redhat.com -----------------------------------