Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:29:01 +0200 | | From | matthieu castet <> | | Subject | Re: ACPI patch process problems again |
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Hi,
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:51:13PM +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > >>Le Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:41:50 -0600, Matthew Wilcox a ?crit?: >> >>>ACPI ADDRESSn resources can describe both memory and port io, but the >>>current code assumes they're descibing memory, which isn't true for HP's >>>ia64 systems. >>> >> >>There already a patch for that in -mm kernel > > > Yes, the original author just contacted me to tell me. It seems to me > that we have a process problem when a bug gets fixed on March 28th, > but not propagated upstream by June 10th. That's almost 11 weeks, > and I'm sure it'll be more by the time it's finally merged. I thought > the days of ACPI process problems were behind us ;-(
The problem is that this patch (and your patch) introduce a regression for some boxes.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6292 for more info.
I submited today a fix for this regression.
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