From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161009AbWFJVL6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:11:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030509AbWFJVL6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:11:58 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:10146 "EHLO palinux.external.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030508AbWFJVL5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:11:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:11:56 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Matthieu CASTET Cc: Len Brown , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ACPI patch process problems again Message-ID: <20060610211156.GT1651@parisc-linux.org> References: <20060610164150.GR1651@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:51:13PM +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > Le Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:41:50 -0600, Matthew Wilcox a ?crit?: > > ACPI ADDRESSn resources can describe both memory and port io, but the > > current code assumes they're descibing memory, which isn't true for HP's > > ia64 systems. > > > There already a patch for that in -mm kernel Yes, the original author just contacted me to tell me. It seems to me that we have a process problem when a bug gets fixed on March 28th, but not propagated upstream by June 10th. That's almost 11 weeks, and I'm sure it'll be more by the time it's finally merged. I thought the days of ACPI process problems were behind us ;-(