From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PNPACPI: support shareable interrupts Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:14:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20060630181431.6245202c.akpm@osdl.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Brown, Len" Cc: bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, ambx1@neo.rr.com, castet.matthieu@free.fr, shaohua.li@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org "Brown, Len" wrote: > > >pnpacpi confuses me. Who maintains it? Is it considered an > >APCI thing, or a PNP thing or a Bjorn thing? > > PNP is Adam's generic Linux PNP layer. > It has "drivers" underneath is, such as pnp-isa, and pnp-bios > > Shaohua invented pnp-acpi as a driver to replace pnp-bios > on ACPI-enabled systems. > > So PNPACPI is the connection between ACPI and PNP, > and folks who conribute to either might contribute to it. > Most of the issues with it to date have been ACPI-specific, > rather than PNP-specific, including this one. > > Bjorn, of course, is qualified to contribute to just about > any part of the kernel. So a "Bjorn thing" could be just > about anything;-) > OK. But that still didn't give me a how-to-get-this-to-mainline graph. Bjorn, are these patches considered for-2.6.18 material? (They look like it).