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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sungem: add support for G5 PowerMac, some PM fixes
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:13:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075101232.5659.19.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040125.230102.71560587.davem@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 18:01, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>    Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:13:12 +1100
> 
>    Anyway, here's the fixed version.
> 
> Applied, thanks.  This one might have to wait for 2.6.3-pre1 though
> for merging.

That's fine, the rest of the PowerMac updates are waiting for 2.6.3 too.
>    The 2.4 backport will come next week hopefully when I'll walk
>    through all my pending 2.4 stuffs, I want to dbl check a few things
>    in it first (and I'm not yet 100% certain I will merge the G5
>    support in 2.4 upstream anyway).
> 
> You should be able to literally copy the 2.6.x driver into the 2.4.x
> tree with perhaps only a one liner or two (if that).

Yes. I'll do that along with other things I need to backport.

>    the new PCI ID isn't yet in Linus tree, but it's in the patches
>    I'm currently sending to Andrew.
> 
> I'd prefer in the future you not do it this way, just give it
> instead within the driver update so that you patch by itself
> stands alone.

Ok.

Ben.



      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22  5:50 [PATCH] sungem: add support for G5 PowerMac, some PM fixes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-22  6:08 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-22 23:13   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-26  7:01     ` David S. Miller
2004-01-26  7:13       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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