On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 09:21:22 PM Moore, Robert wrote: > It would be a similar generation to the iASL compiler or the acpixtract utility. Well, so why don't we write in the changelog: "This change allows the user to build the portable acpidump utility by executing the following command: ..." and so on? Rafael > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:06 PM > > To: Moore, Robert > > Cc: Len Brown; Zheng, Lv; Wysocki, Rafael J; Brown, Len; linux acpi > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] ACPICA: New: Portable acpidump utility (get > > system ACPI tables) > > > > On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 06:53:42 PM Moore, Robert wrote: > > > Please don't drop this if it is indeed the acpidump utility. > > > > Well, that's unclear to me to be honest. :-) > > > > > This utility is now a part of ACPICA and should replace the existing > > utility. > > > > OK, but we need to tell the users how to build it. > > > > Thanks, > > Rafael > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxx] > > > > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 4:10 PM > > > > To: Len Brown > > > > Cc: Zheng, Lv; Wysocki, Rafael J; Moore, Robert; Brown, Len; linux > > > > acpi > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] ACPICA: New: Portable acpidump utility > > > > (get system ACPI tables) > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 01:07:50 PM Len Brown wrote: > > > > > > This utility dumps the system ACPI tables in an ascii format > > > > > > suitable for extraction via the acpixtract utility. > > > > > > > > > > This commit message does not match the contents of the patch, or > > > > > explain how this patch is related (or not) to the acpidump utility > > > > > already in the kernel tree under tools/power/acpi/acpidump/ > > > > > > > > > > Naked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Well, I was on the verge of dropping this one before, so dropped now. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rafael > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > I speak only for myself. > > > > Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. > > > > > -- > > I speak only for myself. > > Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. > -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
