From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264796AbUEYIA6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 04:00:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264799AbUEYIA6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 04:00:58 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:19101 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264796AbUEYIAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 04:00:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:00:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3 Message-ID: <20040525080006.GA1047@kroah.com> References: <20040524210146.GA5532@kroah.com> <1085468008.2783.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085468008.2783.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:53:28AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 23:01, Greg KH wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now that the ACPI portion of PCI Express support is in the 2.4 kernel > > tree, I can send you the remaining portion to actually enable this > > feature to work properly. Here is the PCI Express support for i386 and > > x86_64 platforms backported from 2.6 to the 2.4 kernel. > > > how does this mesh with the "2.4 is now feature frozen"? As the major chunk of ACPI support just got added to the tree, and the only reason that went in was for this patch, I assumed that it was acceptable. Marcelo, feel free to tell me otherwise if you do not want this in the 2.4 tree. > Especially since you don't NEED this patch to run on pci express > hardware, it's just that you can use a few performance tweaks. I agree. thanks, greg k-h