Re: 2.4.22 timeline was RE: 2.4.21-rc7 ACPI broken

From: J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 18:58:38 EST


On 06.18, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Eric Valette wrote:
>
> > Marcelo Tosati wrote:
> >
> > >The main reason I didnt want to merge it was due to its size. Its just
> > >too big.
> >
> > >> Please stop leading me along. Will you EVER merge it?
> >
> > >Yes, I want to, and will merge it. In 2.4.23-pre.
> >
> > This kind of mails and sentence makes you lost your credibility :
> > 1) You said that ACPI will be merged in 2.4.22-pre,
> > 2) For many people ACPI (and aic7xxx) is top priority for 2.4 kernel
> > (see various post including alan). The reason being that most laptop are
> > unusable nowadays without ACPI,
> > 3) You do not explicitely says what you plan for 2.4.22...
>
> My plan for 2.4.22 is:
>
> - Include the new aic7xxx driver.
> - Include ACPI. (I now realized its importance). Already discussing with
> Andrew the best way to do it.
> - Fix the latency/interactivity problems (Chris, Nick and Andrea working
> on that)
> - Merge obviously correct -aa VM patches.
>
> Those are the most important things that are needed now, I think.
>

Would you accept small canges like -march (gcc_check) for x86 ?

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