Re: [PATCH 00/11] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - v3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > Ok, this iteration is even nicer.
> 
> Thank you, Ingo, both for the thoughtful review,
> and your kind words.
> 
> >   Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > A patch technical request/suggestion. I guess you'd like to keep 
> > these bits in the ACPI tree, so that you can test it and merge it 
> > with ongoing ACPI changes, right?
> > 
> > That would be fine to me for all the arch/x86/ touching patches, 
> > except for this one:
> > 
> >  [PATCH 05/11] ACPI, x86: expose some IO-APIC routines when CONFIG_ACPI=n
> > 
> > I'd like to pick this one up into tip:x86/apic, because there's 
> > ongoing work in this area. (also, by the looks of it, i'd not be 
> > surprised if this patch needed some testing. This is fragile code 
> > with quirky Kconfig dependencies.)
> > 
> > I can create a standalone topic for this (based on .31-rc6), 
> > containing this single commit, which you could pull into the ACPI 
> > tree? That way we both can have this commit and nobody is held up, 
> > and both trees can be pushed to Linus in the .32 merge window, 
> > independently of each other.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> Go ahead and pull that patch onto an 2.6.31-rc8 based branch from here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git for-ingo
> 
> As the previous patches did not depend on it, I simply rebased 
> that one to rc8 and moved the other patches after it.

Pulled, thanks Len!

	Ingo
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