Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | RE: [BK PATCH] 2.4 ACPI update | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:17:43 -0800 | From | "Nakajima, Jun" <> |
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I agree.
The file was replaced basically by arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c and part of the code in acpitable.c was reused there.
Thanks, Jun
> -----Original Message----- > From: Grover, Andrew > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:35 PM > To: Christoph Hellwig > Cc: Marcelo Tosatti; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: [BK PATCH] 2.4 ACPI update > > > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org] > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:12:43AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > > arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.c | 554 ---- > > > arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.h | 260 -- > > > > No reason to remove this. > > The ACPI patch implements CPU-enum-only support in exactly the same way > that 2.5 does, so my thinking was that this code is no longer needed. > > If this *has* been the roadblock to 2.4 patch acceptance for the past 16 > months, then obviously I would be willing to revert that cset and keep > it, but I do think the patch does keep the functionality provided by > those files - i.e. the ability to get ACPI table parsing for cpu enum > without adding the interpreter to the kernel image. > > Regards -- Andy > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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