linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch

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Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:06:32 +0200
From:	Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@...soft.at>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch

Andrew Morton schrieb:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:26:15 +0200
> Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@...soft.at> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200
>>> Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@...soft.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives
>>>> a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether
>>>> to use mmconfig or not fail.
>>> Sorry, you cannot do this.  I already merged this patch into -mm, and
>>> followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.
>>>
>>> Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which
>>> Adrian and I prepared.
>>>
>>> If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a
>>> stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to
>>> Linus.  But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed
>>> doesn't help anyone.
>>>
>>> Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions.  See section 2 of
>>> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>> I see only one bugfix patch in your patches ( add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch )
>> which is now included in this patch.
>>
> 
> I presently have
> 
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch
> add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix-2.patch
> 
> and
> 
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-tidy.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix.patch
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86-fix-2.patch
> 
> all of which you should have been cc'ed on.
> 
> Anyway, unless there's a rush on this work, please check that everything
> looks OK in -mm as we head into 2.6.19-rc1.
> 

Mea culpa. Looked at the wrong place. I checked the patches in mm and they look ok.

cu

Edgar Hucek

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