From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:43:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Message-Id: <20060318154319.GB29862@humbolt.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <20060106172140.GB19605@lists.us.dell.com> <20060106223932.GB9230@lists.us.dell.com> <20060317155445.602f07b9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060318145621.GA29862@humbolt.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20060318145621.GA29862@humbolt.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:56:21AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:54:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It could be that Andi's changes break the ia64 dmi impementation - I don't > > know. I guess it's OK if ia64 is not doing a scan "early". > > It's not done "early", because at this point it's only needed for > drivers. On i386 it's done "early" to catch some chipsets > (coincidentally, Dell). > > > The above might not compile, but I'll make sure that it does so before > > releasing next -mm. > > > > So. Bottom line: please test the ia64 dmi patches in next -mm, send any > > needed fixups, thanks. > > > Built 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 on ia64 Itanium2 (Dell PowerEdge 7250, aka Intel > Tiger4). Compiled clean, loaded clean, works as expected. Thanks! Built 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 on x86_64 Dell PowerEdge 2800. Compiled clean, loaded clean, works as expected. Thanks! -Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com