On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:36:43 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > A> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:23 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> [remove_cycle_at_battery_removal.patch text/x-patch (1.7KB)] > >> ACPI: Battery: remove cycle from battery removal. > >> > >> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> > >> > >> get_property() should not call battery_update() on absent battery to > >> avoid cycle and oops. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> > >> Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > A patch similar to this one but with an identical changelog was merged into > > Len's tree on November 2. > > > > If it had been promptly merged into mainline then quite a lot of people's > > time would not have been wasted. > > > Andrew, > should I send such patches directly to you/Linus? > Well if Len doesn't object and you're confident in the changes, why not? Any time we leave bugs unfixed we drive away testers and that impacts all parts of the kernel. - 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
