"Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >pnpacpi confuses me. Who maintains it? Is it considered an > >APCI thing, or a PNP thing or a Bjorn thing? > > PNP is Adam's generic Linux PNP layer. > It has "drivers" underneath is, such as pnp-isa, and pnp-bios > > Shaohua invented pnp-acpi as a driver to replace pnp-bios > on ACPI-enabled systems. > > So PNPACPI is the connection between ACPI and PNP, > and folks who conribute to either might contribute to it. > Most of the issues with it to date have been ACPI-specific, > rather than PNP-specific, including this one. > > Bjorn, of course, is qualified to contribute to just about > any part of the kernel. So a "Bjorn thing" could be just > about anything;-) > OK. But that still didn't give me a how-to-get-this-to-mainline graph. Bjorn, are these patches considered for-2.6.18 material? (They look like it). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
