On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 19:13 -0700, Myron Stowe wrote: > I recently submitted a patch series that re-factored some existing > work that Huang Ying introduced adding support for accessing ACPI > generic registers, backed by Memory Mapped I/O (MMIO), while within > interrupt context: > Original series: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=128769263327206&w=2 > Follow on series: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132070825520957&w=2 > > An underlying goal has been to re-factor ./drivers/acpi/atomicio.c into > ./drivers/acpi/osl.c, providing equivalent functionality but in a more > generalized manner, to allow usage in non-specific (i.e. APEI) contexts > and remove atomicio.c. > > In the most recent follow on series, there ended up being additions to > atomicio.c that coincided with the attempt to remove it and as such, the > series final removal patch could not be taken without first pulling the > additions into osl.c. The fact that the follow on series conversion > patch - commit 700130b41f4 - was taken has inadvertently created > regressions with respect to the recent atomicio.c additions due to the > conversion patch effectively making atomicio.c obsolete. > > The additions were commit 04c25997c97 "ACPI, Add 64bit read/write > support to atomicio on i386" and commit 76da3fb3575 "ACPI, Add RAM > mapping support to ACPI atomic IO support". > > This patch series addresses both of these issues, bringing in the > additional functionality into the re-factored files (apei-base.c and > osl.c) and then again, reintroduces the patch to remove > ./drivers/acpi/atomicio.[ch]. > --- > > Myron Stowe (3): > ACPI: Remove ./drivers/acpi/atomicio.[ch] It appears there is no one uses atomicio.[ch] now. So I think it is safe to push this into 3.3. > ACPI, APEI: Add RAM mapping support to ACPI > ACPI, APEI: Add 64-bit read/write support for APEI on i386 These two patches are just fixes. So I think we should push these two patches into 3.3. Len, Do you agree? Best Regards, Huang Ying -- 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
