From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [patch 04/10] acpi: adjust _acpi_{module,function}_namedefinitions Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:20:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <200805010952.m419q3Jc031806@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1209722812.22514.28.camel@linux-2bdv.site> <20080502054113.4e5839d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1209737075.22514.79.camel@linux-2bdv.site> <9D39833986E69849A2A8E74C1078B6B3446FBD@orsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080623124523.76f38d90.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:39427 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbYF0CUj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:20:39 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([72.93.254.151]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K3300B9SNU4Q8I7@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:20:29 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <20080623124523.76f38d90.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Moore, Robert" , trenn@suse.de, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com > > >But in future, such patches should definitely be based against ACPICA > > >code. Len will probably announce here where to find the very latest > > >sources, soon. Currently the latest official release linked to on > > >http://lesswatts.org is still from 2006. AFAIK things will get better > > >here, soon. > > > > > > Thomas > > > > > > The latest ACPICA source can be found at the acpica.org website. In > > fact, we have converted our source repository from CVS to git, and the > > actual working git repository is now publicly available at > > > > http://www.acpica.org/repos/acpica.git/ > > > > The acpica.org website was created at the end of 2007, and is now the > > home of the acpica project. > > > > OK, I'm now peeved. please, don't be. > I've sent this patch ten damned times now and only once was there any > comment and it was this vague indecisive wafflefest from which I now > discover I was removed from Cc. it appears that the cc: list was trimmed when a discussion about the ACPCIA git tree URL was sent. Unfortunately on May 6th when bob e-mailed that he'd pulled the patch into ACPICA, he replied to that branch of the thread and not the original. If I pulled from Bob instantaneously, you'd have got a reject when creating -mm on that day. As it turns out, we had more urgent fish to fry that day, so it came out the end of the ACPICA->Linux pipe later. > Well someone has now merged something else which wrecked this patch > whcih I've been maintaining (for you guys!) for over two months. > > I'll drop it. Please try harder. Please do drop it, because it is already in linux-acpi. It probably didn't reject cleanly because Lindent is too. In the future, please simply do not accept patches to drivers/acpi/*/* (the ACPICA files) into -mm. Instead, bounce them to the Linux/ACPI maintainer, who will bounce them to the ACPICA maintainer -- which is the head of the stream for these sub-directories. Yes, I could have and should have asked you to drop these ACPICA cleanups back when I bounced them to Bob. I certainly don't want to create more work for you. thanks, -Len