On Saturday 15 March 2008, Éric Piel wrote: > 15/03/08 20:21, Linus Torvalds wrote/a écrit: > > > > I've reverted the whole thing. Or rather, since there were various small > > fixup commits over time, and a simple revert doesn't really work, I ended > > up just removing the option and the code that was conditional on it - that > > way, if we really want to fight this out some time (after 2.6.25 is out) > > or some vendor wants to use a known-broken option anyway, there's a simple > > and fairly clean commit to revert the revert. > > > > It's commit 9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47, see > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a9e0d685553af76cb6ae2af93cca4913e7fcd47 > > > > for details if you aren't a git person. > It's a pity, I had just nearly finished a new approach. Instead of > relying on populate_rootfs() and the filesystem infrastructure, the new > approach directly finds the file in the initramfs. With > unpack_to_rootfs(), it turned out to be rather straightforward. Attached > is a half-tested version of the patch (it boots and works but I haven't > compiled without the option yet). Just in case you would like to change > your mind ;-) I recommend that you make a new proposal for 2.6.26 that applies on top of Linus' top-of-tree and that we include lkml in hashing it out rather than just linux-acpi. thanks, -Len -- 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
