Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] ACPICA: Add SVKL table headers

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Apr 23 2021 - 14:25:53 EST


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 6:52 PM Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 4/23/21 5:36 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Evidently, this is ACPICA material, so I'm expecting to receive this
> > patch from Erik within the normal ACPICA development process, so I'm
> > not sure what the purpose of this submission is.
> >
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> Erik already sent a pull request to merge this patch to ACPICA repo.
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> After he updated the ACPICA commit ID, he sent it to me for Linux
> submission.
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> I am not sure whether there is a special process for ACPICA related
> submission to Linux kernel. But if I had to guess, since I have sent
> both SVKL and MADT patches at the same time, Erik might have assumed
> that it should be merged in the same patch set and hence sent to me
> for upstream submission.
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> > Has this patch been posted here for reference only?
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> If this submission is incorrect, I can request Erik to submit it again
> for upstream merge.

All of the sign-offs under the original ACPICA commit should have been
preserved, then.