Re: ACPI video mode patch review

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > Many thanks for taking care of this!
> > 
> > We already have a patch in -mm, s2ram-kill-old-debugging-junk.patch from Pavel
> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=118737955611331&w=1), that removes the
> > #ifdefed blocks and it clashes with your first patch a bit.
> > 
> > FYI, I have rebased your first patch on top of the Pavel's patch:
> > http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/hibernation_and_suspend/2.6.23-rc6/patches/39-acpi-video-mode-fix.patch
> > 
> 
> Thanks Rafael,
> 
> However, I need to send something upstream to Linus for this kernel
> cycle, so I don't want to base it on an -mm patch.  There are two
> alternatives, obviously: 1. send my patch in now based on the "change as
> little as necessary to fix the immediate problem" and then rebase
> Pavel's patch on top of mine, or 2. for me to send both Pavel's patch
> and the rebased patch upstream.
> 
> Personally, I would prefer to avoid strategy 2 at this late stage in the
> 2.6.23-rc series.

Agreed we should have the fix in 2.6.23... Actually doing 2 does not
seem like a big problem, my patch is pretty straight cleanup (and may
even fix some machines, as we avoid touching video ram)... But
resolving conflict is not hard, either; I know, I did it :-).
									Pavel
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