On 8/18/06, Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 17 August 2006 03:48, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 8/16/06, Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Andrew, > > Please delete this patch from MM -- it is stale. > > Jaya, please send Andrew the newer patch that replaces it -- the one > > that doesn't touch drivers/acpi. > > > > thanks, > > -Len > > Hi Len, > > I had sent that on June 26 to everyone on the CC list. Archive link is here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115391161115058&w=2 that patch was an incremental depending on the previous patch. Please send just the final patch vs 2.6.18-rc4 to the above, also cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Also, Dmitry had asked what we should do about handing ACPI errors to > upper layers here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115392091425952&w=2 Dmitry has a good question and we need to iron it out for the general case. I recommend that for your driver you simply do something like this for now: if (ACPI_ERROR(status)) status = -EINVAL and get your driver into the mm tree to find the next problem.
Jaya, If you could make the change Len was talking about and create a patch against mainline I would apply it to my tree. Thank you. -- Dmitry - 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
