Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

Hi kernel fellows,

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:32:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:00:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 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.

major? the MMConfig support is minimal as I can see? 

> > Marcelo, feel free to tell me otherwise if you do not want
> > this in the 2.4 tree. 

Is this code necessary for PCI-Express devices/busses to work properly?

> I assume it was added because Len tries to keep ACPI in 2.4 and 2.6 as
> close to identical as possible.  It certainly doesn't hurt anyone to add
> the ACPI functionality without the MMConfig support.

I've humbly asked Len to stop doing big updates whenever possible on the 
v2.4 ACPI code, and do bugfixes only instead. Is that a pain in the ass for you, Len?    

I asked that because it is common to see new bugs introduced by an ACPI update, 
and you know that more than I do.

Thanks!

PS: Greg, about the PCI-Express hotplug drivers, I assume they are independant 
on any of this?