Re: [PATCH 0/2] Winbond driver as PNP

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Friday 10 July 2009 01:55:27 am David Härdeman wrote:
> On Thu, July 9, 2009 23:38, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Here are two sample patches to show you what I was suggesting.  These
> > apply on top of the two Winbond patches currently in -mm.
> 
> Thanks, great service :)
> 
> I'll test the patches as soon as I have time and access to the hardware.
> 
> One question though, the resulting patch series (if AKPM merges these
> patches in addition to the existing ones and drops the patch adding
> .shutdown to acpi_driver) will be git bisect unfriendly.
> 
> Should I roll two new patches instead to replace the three patches
> currently in -mm?

If you like the approach and it works, I would take the latter
approach (replace the three patches with two new ones -- e.g.,
add-pnp-shutdown-method and add-winbond-pnp-driver).  I don't
think we have to worry about bisectability until they show up
in a git tree.

Bjorn
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