From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/17] platinumfb: Fix resource management Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:29:25 +1000 Message-ID: <1191446965.22572.103.camel@pasglop> References: <46FDAA91.4080205@gmail.com> <20071003135629.96ff8ebf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdBnI-00086x-Tz for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:30:13 -0700 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=[U2FsdGVkX1/RB/fld23l0SYAon6x+ygkZgulxQe3Oec=]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1IdBnH-0004br-9X for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:30:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20071003135629.96ff8ebf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Antonino A. Daplas" On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 13:56 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:29:53 +0800 > "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > > Current kernels have a non-working platinumfb due to some resource > > management issues. This fixes it. > > Why isn't this 2.6.23 material? We decided it's been broken long enough and nobody complained so it wasn't worth pushing. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't more than a handful of people left with a PowerMac 7200 which is I think the only machine using platinumfb. Feel free to send it to Linus for .23 if you feel like it though. Cheers, Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/