Re: [patch 00/28] PNP: convert fixed tables to lists, v3

From: Len Brown
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 20:00:40 EST


thanks for the update, bjorn.

it applied cleanly to top of linus' tree,
built cleanly and booted cleanly -- no unexplained dmesg diffs.

there are a couple of checkpatch.pl warnings -- i'll look
at those after the celtics.

cheers,
-len


On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> This patch series contains all my PNP patches that are not yet in Linus'
> tree, including both the "convert resource table to dynamic list" series
> and the "convert resource options to unified dynamic list" series.
>
> This series should replace all the PNP patches in -mm from
> pnp-add-detail-to-debug-resource-dump.patch
> ...
> not-for-merging-pnp-changes-suspend-oops.patch
> except for isa-set-24-bit-dma_mask-for-isa-devices.patch, which got
> stuck in the middle but isn't really PNP-related.
>
> I'll be on vacation for the rest of the week, so I won't be able to
> respond to any issues until Monday.
>
> Here are the significant changes since the last posting:
>
> - When replacing pnp_resource_table, the PNPACPI resource encoders
> have to explicitly handle disabled resources; previously any
> unused slots in the table were implicitly disabled. This should
> fix Jiri Slaby's oops on suspend/resume (though he hasn't tested
> this version).
>
> This change is in the patch titled "PNP: replace pnp_resource_table
> with dynamically allocated resources".
>
> - Added a new patch to keep disabled IRQ and DMA resources when parsing
> current config. This fixes a bug in the current (2.6.25) PNPACPI
> code: consider a device with (mem, irq0, irq1, io), where irq0 is
> disabled. If we drop irq0 when parsing the _CRS, we will mistakenly
> put irq1 in the irq0 slot when we encode resources for an _SRS call.
>
> - Added a new patch to avoid interrupts used by an IDE controller in
> compatibility mode. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375836
>
> - Added a new PNPACPI patch to support HP vendor-specific descriptors.
> This has long been supported by arch/ia64/kernel/acpi-ext.c, which
> provides an hp_acpi_csr_space() interface, but I think it's better
> and more generic to support it in PNPACPI.
>
> Changes since v2 of "convert resource options to unified dynamic list":
>
> - fixed bisection problem in quirk_ad1815_mpu_resources()
> - fixed checkpatch warning in pnp_show_options()
> (pnp-convert-resource-options-to-single-linked-list-checkpatch-fixes.patch)
> - replaced pnp_independent_option() with literal 0
> - fixed coding style in pnp/manager.c
> - added EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_possible_config)
> (pnp-add-pnp_possible_config-can-a-device-could-be-configured-this-way-fix.patch)
>
> Bjorn
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