Re: [RFC] DMI cleanup patches

Andrew Morton
2004-05-06T15:10:45Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Andrey Panin wrote:
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> > currently arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file looks like complete
> > mess. Interfacing with other kernel subsystem made using
> > ad-hoc ways, mostly with ugly global variables, additionaly
> > coding style is ... not good. So these patches appear:
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> The patches look good by me, but I'd rather leave them to after 2.6.6,
> since they seem to be cleanups rather than serious bug-fixes.
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There is a significant amount of work pending in the DRM development tree
at http://drm.bkbits.net/drm-2.6 (which is included in -mm). Andrey's
zeroeth patch alone tosses three rejects against it.

David, now would be a good time to start getting that code ready for a
merge.

Andrey, you should rebase your patches on top of the DRM tree, or -mm, and
copy David on the emails.

Thanks.