The patch titled ipmi: convert tracking of the ACPI device pointer to a PNP device has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipmi-convert-tracking-of-the-acpi-device-pointer-to-a-pnp-device.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ipmi: convert tracking of the ACPI device pointer to a PNP device From: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@xxxxxx> Convert PNP patch (git 9e368fa011d4e0aa050db348d69514900520e40b) to maintain a pointer to a PNP device, 'pnp_dev', instead of the ACPI device, 'acpi_dev', that is currently being tracked with PNP based IPMI device discovery. Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-convert-tracking-of-the-acpi-device-pointer-to-a-pnp-device drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-convert-tracking-of-the-acpi-device-pointer-to-a-pnp-device +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ static int __devinit ipmi_pnp_probe(stru info->irq_setup = std_irq_setup; } - info->dev = &acpi_dev->dev; + info->dev = &dev->dev; pnp_set_drvdata(dev, info); return try_smi_init(info); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from myron.stowe@xxxxxx are ipmi-raise-precedence-of-pnp-based-discovery-mechanisms-acpi-pci.patch ipmi-convert-tracking-of-the-acpi-device-pointer-to-a-pnp-device.patch ipmi-update-driver-to-use-dev_printk-and-its-constructs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html