Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPICA: Tables: Add function to remove ACPI tables

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb, at 09:15:28PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> Actually, the reason is that, as a rule, the process for ACPICA
>> patches is that they first go to upstream ACPICA and they are acquired
>> by Linux from there.
>>
>> While there are some exceptions from that process, there also are good
>> reasons for that process to be followed, including the licensing one
>> mentioned by Lv.
>>
>> All that said, Matt, if you agree that the patch can be applied under
>> the BSD license, I think we can offer help with converting it to the
>> upstream ACPICA coding conventions and applying it there.  Lv, would
>> you be able to take care of that?
>
> I don't have any problem with that, but can we hold off on this patch
> for now? There's another approach to fixing the BGRT issue with kexec
> that's being discussed which would supersede this,
>
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160218141544.GH2651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Assuming this patch does get picked up again, I'm happy to respin it
> against upstream ACPICA, but how do I go about getting dependent
> patches merged, PATCH 2/2 in this case?

We generate a Linux version of the patch out of the upstream ACPICA
sources (semi-automatically) and that can be merged into Linux in
advance.  We don't do that as a rule, but it can be done.  That at
least ensures that we'll be consistent with future ACPICA updates from
the upstream.

Thanks,
Rafael