Re: [PATCH 2/2] pnp: add PNP resource range checking function

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:09:44 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:53:59 -0700
> Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 10:28 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > Hi Frans,
> > > 
> > > Frans Pop wrote:
> > > >> Add a PNP resource range check function, indicating whether a
> > > >> resource has been assigned to any device.
> > > > 
> > > > Shouldn't this patch come *before* your patch 1/2?
> > > > You now seem to use this function in a commit where it has not
> > > > yet been defined, which could result in build errors during
> > > > bisections.
> > > 
> > > Yes, correct. Sorry about that!
> > > 
> > > 			Pekka
> > 
> > This is already in drm-intel-next
> > 
> 
> Neither patch is in linux-next.  So either a) drm-intel-next contains
> 2.6.31 material or b) your processes broke.

drm-intel-next gets into linux-next by way of drm-next.  Not sure if
Dave has pulled Eric's bits yet though.

> Either way, these patches fix a "serious performance regression".
> They should be merged into 2.6.30 or 2.6.30.x, shouldn't they?

I'm still a little nervous about this, but I won't block it.  Since the
commits don't have stable@xxxxxxxxxx cc'd I guess Pekka will just have
to send a note to stable when they go upstream.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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