From: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI patch process problems again
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:29:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448B399D.7040703@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060610211156.GT1651@parisc-linux.org>
Hi,
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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 ;-(
The problem is that this patch (and your patch) introduce a regression
for some boxes.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6292 for more info.
I submited today a fix for this regression.
Matthieu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-10 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-10 16:41 [PATCH] pnpacpi mishandles port io ADDRESS resources Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-10 20:51 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-06-10 21:11 ` ACPI patch process problems again Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-10 21:29 ` matthieu castet [this message]
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