Re: [PATCH 00/30] ACPICA: 20160318 Release

[Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>]

On 11/07/16 16:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, July 11, 2016 04:48:26 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Monday, July 11, 2016 04:38:17 PM Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>> Hi Rafael,
>>>
>>> On 24/03/16 14:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>> The 20160318 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem updates are linuxized based
>>>>> on the linux-pm/linux-next branch.
>>>>>
>>>>> The patchset has passed the following build/boot tests.
>>>>> Build tests are performed as follows:
>>>>> 1. i386 + allyes
>>>>> 2. i386 + allno
>>>>> 3. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>>>>> 4. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=n + ACPI_DEBUG=y
>>>>> 5. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUG=n + ACPI=y
>>>>> 6. i386 + default + ACPI=n
>>>>> 7. x86_64 + allyes
>>>>> 8. x86_64 + allno
>>>>> 9. x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>>>>> 10.x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=n + ACPI_DEBUG=y
>>>>> 11.x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUG=n + ACPI=y
>>>>> 12.x86_64 + default + ACPI=n
>>>>> Boot tests are performed as follows:
>>>>> 1. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>>>>> 2. x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>>>>> Where:
>>>>> 1. i386: machine named as "Dell Inspiron Mini 1010"
>>>>> 2. x86_64: machine named as "HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC"
>>>>> 3. default: kernel configuration with following items enabled:
>>>>>      All hardware drivers related to the machines of i386/x86_64
>>>>>      All "drivers/acpi" configurations
>>>>>      All "drivers/platform" drivers
>>>>>      All other drivers that link the APIs provided by ACPICA subsystem
>>>>>
>>>>> The divergences checking result:
>>>>> Before applying (20160212 Release):
>>>>>     506 lines
>>>>> After applying (20160318 Release):
>>>>>     494 lines
>>>>>
>>>>> Al Stone (1):
>>>>>     ACPICA: IORT: Add in support for the SMMUv3 subtable
>>>>>
>>>>> Aleksey Makarov (1):
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob Moore (16):
>>>>>     ACPICA: Headers: Minor update for SPCR ACPI table
>>>>>     ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Updates for the HEST ACPI table
>>>>>     ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Update NFIT table for additional new fields
>>>>>     ACPICA: Headers: Update DMAR table for October 2014 I/O spec
>>>>>     ACPICA: Tables: Update FADT handling
>>>>>     ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Add full support for this version of ACPI spec
>>>>>     ACPICA: iASL/Headers: Fix incorrect definition of FPDT table
>>>>>     ACPICA: Intepreter: Add object extensions to Concatenate operand
>>>>>     ACPICA: Interpreter: Update some function headers, no functional
>>>>>       change
>>>>>     ACPICA: iASL: Cleanup/optimization for ToPLD macro support
>>>>>     ACPICA: Cleanup some invocation indentations, no functional change
>>>>>     ACPICA: Headers: Update generation of the ACPICA library
>>>>>     ACPICA: Utilities: Update for strtoul64 merger
>>>>>     ACPICA: All: const keyword changes across the ACPICA source
>>>>>     ACPICA: iASL/Disassembler: Improve handling of unresolved methods
>>>>>     ACPICA: Update version to 20160318
>>>>>
>>>>> Lv Zheng (11):
>>>>>     ACPICA: Linuxize: reduce divergences for 20160212 release
>>>>>     ACPICA: Linuxize: Remove useless platform headers
>>>>>     ACPICA: Utilities: Add ACPI_IS_POWER_OF_TWO()
>>>>>     Utilities: Fix missing parentheses in ACPI_GET_BITS()/ACPI_SET_BITS()
>>>>>     ACPICA: Hardware: Enhance acpi_hw_validate_register() with
>>>>>       access_width/bit_offset awareness
>>>>>     ACPICA: Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support in
>>>>>       acpi_hw_read()
>>>>>     ACPICA: Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support for
>>>>>       acpi_hw_write()
>>>>>     ACPICA: Interpreter: Fix wrong conditions for
>>>>>       acpi_ev_install_region_handlers() invocation
>>>>>     ACPICA: Tables: Fix wrong MLC condition for dynamic table loading
>>>>>     ACPICA: Events: Fix an issue that _REG association can happen before
>>>>>       namespace is initialized
>>>>>     ACPICA: Namespace: Reorder \_SB._INI to make sure it is evaluated
>>>>>       before _REG evaluations
>>>>>
>>>>> Will Miles (1):
>>>>>     ACPICA: Add support for QNX 6.6 platform
>>>>
>>>> This is too late to go in during the current merge window, but I'll
>>>> queue it up and send a separate pull request for 4.6 with it next
>>>> week.
>>>>
>>>> I'll fix up the whitespace breakage in the first patch (it is easy
>>>> enough to fix up manually), but as Len said, please fix the process to
>>>> avoid such things in the future.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to spot this series in linux-next, epsecially patch 03/30:
>>> "ACPICA: Headers: Add new constants for the DBG2 ACPI table"
>>>
>>> Can you please clarify what happened?
>>
>> It was in linux-next.  I'm not sure why you didn't spot it in there.
>
> It wasn't in there before the merge window opened, though, which really
> seems to be what your question is about, right?
>
> In this particular case an ACPICA release happened right before the
> opening of a merge window and the choice was to either push it regardless
> or to defer it to the next merge window.
>
> The latter is not really attractive, though, because it only causes the
> delta between upstream ACPICA and the Linux kernel to grow and we get more
> stuff in in one go.
>
> Please note, though, that it had spent some time in linux-next during the
> merge window before it was pushed.
>

Don't worry Rafael, I screwed up my branches, that's why I didn't found 
the patch I was looking for.

Thanks for your explication.
Matthias