Re: Linux 2.6.0 (ACPI)

[Andrew Morton]

Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/should-fix-7.txt
> 
> We have 88 open bugs against ACPI (out of 216 total).

Poor Len ;)

> They fall into
> two broad categories -- boot/configuration (eg. interrupt issues); and
> run-time features (eg. acpi events -- power-down, fan control etc). 
> #1038 mentioned here has sort of grown out of control into "anything at
> all wrong with anybody's IBM T40", so I'm not sure it will ever be
> completely closed;-)
> 
> I agree with Andy Grover's comments in this file that fixing the bugs
> one by one in the current design is the highest priority; and I think
> that strategy is showing positive results.

Great.

> >   fixes appear in Andrew Morton's "-mm" tree, at
> > 
> >         ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/
> > 
> 
> Now that you're back, we should probably pull the current 2.6.0 ACPI
> patch into the mm tree, since 2.6 without it is now somewhat behind
> 2.4.23.
> 
> I understand that consolidated plain patches are preferred for the mm
> tree.

They're easiest for me, but a bitkeeper pull is OK too.

>  I assume that the actual pull into the release tree can still be
> done using bk so that we can preserve the individual csets and their
> comments?

Well..  If you have isolated patches which are confirmed to fix the problem
then there is no benefit in staging these changes in -mm: just merge them
up.   It depends upon your confidence level, really.


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