Re: [PATCH] Cast removal

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:56:02 -0400
Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm okay applying this patch it touches the linux-specific
> drivers/acpi/* files only, no ACPICA files.

Why?

Would it help if it was split into two?

How do mortals distinguish ACPICA files from Linux files?

> But I don't know if Linus will want changes like this post -rc1.
> It might be a pain to have in the tree all the way to 2.6.20 opens b/c
> it is sure to cause merge conflicts

Should be OK - the acpi tree is very slow-changing at present.  Or did you
have big changes planned?

Or I can maintain it externally along with the 10-20 other acpi patches I
seem to be regularly stuck with (hint ;)

> -- and at the end of the day
> the benefit of this patch is what?  A few less characters in the source... 
>

yes, cleanups are a pain, and we do a lot of them.  And we merge just about
all of them.  But I think it's best in the long run; and we are in this for
the long run.  
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