Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:41, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:37, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > dmi_scan.c is arch-independent and is used by i386, x86_64, and ia64. > > > Currently all three arches compile it from arch/i386, which means that > > > ia64 and x86_64 depend on things in arch/i386 that they wouldn't > > > otherwise care about. > > > > > > This is simply "mv arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c drivers/firmware/" > > > (removing trailing whitespace) and the associated Makefile changes. > > > All three architectures already set CONFIG_DMI in their top-level > > > Kconfig files. > > > > > > Built and booted on ia64 and i386. > > > > This conflicts with at least three patches in my upcomming x86-64 patchkit. akpm:/usr/src/25> grep -l arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c patches/*.patch patches/dmi-only-ioremap-stuff-we-actually-need.patch patches/efi-fixes.patch patches/efi-keep-physical-table-addresses-in-efi-structure.patch patches/ia64-use-i386-dmi_scanc.patch patches/x86_64-mm-dmi-early.patch patches/x86_64-mm-dmi-year.patch > > Since it doesn't fix anything I would request that such cleanup patches be > > delayed. > > Sure, that's fine with me. Do you want to let me know when your > patches are in? Or maybe it would be easier for you to incorporate > my patch into your patchkit. I just don't know how to tell when > the cleanup window is open. > I'm reluctant to attempt to merge the efi patches until ia64, acpi and x86_64 have merged. Only ia64 has merged at this time. acpi might need to be bypassed, dunno. I'd expect things to be settled down in a couple of weeks. Patches which move files around are hard. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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