>-----Original Message----- >From: Moore, Robert >Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:31 PM >To: Kleen, Andi; Lin, Ming M >Cc: 'linux-acpi'; Brown, Len >Subject: RE: ACPICA patch set, release 20080701 & 20080729 > >>And it's far too late for feature patches at this point. Can you >>extract only the bug fixes and non intrusive cleanups? > >What does this mean exactly? The Linux kernel has this concept of merging windows. After a major release there is a 2 week merging window where all the features go in. The merge window closes with -rc1. After -rc1 some features can still go in, but in general larger merges are frowned upon (as in Linus often yells at the submitter) The focus is definitely on bug fixes post -rc1. Also there seem to be unfortunately quite a lot of ACPI regressions this cycle, so I have to be especially conservative. A full 2 cycle ACPICA merge would be likely too much of a merge. Also we need some testing time for major ACPICA changes in -mm/linux-next anyways. I'm open for relatively clear bug fixes and unlikely to break anything cleanups though to push in for .27. E.g. the pathname fixes would be obvious candidates. Since you know the various patches better than me it makes sense for you to preselect. I can pull full ACPICA into the test tree of course (assuming it applies). Will do that tomorrow. But test is beyond .27. -Andi -- 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
