linux-kernel - Re: [git pull request] ACPI patches for 2.6.36.merge

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Date:	Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:21:53 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	sedat.dilek@...il.com, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	len.brown@...el.com, Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull request] ACPI patches for 2.6.36.merge

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:04:09 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'd be suspecting that we have two patches both of which worked
> > separately but which broke when combined.  Is there some other patch in
> > that tree which adds a new reference to `ref' in acpi_power_seq_show()?
> 
> The offending patch isn't about acpi_power_seq_show(), it's about
> acpi_power_off_device().

The patch I sent Len patched acpi_power_seq_show().

> 
> ...
>
> What does that say about the _rest_ of the patches?

Not tested in combination?

> What does that say about (lack of) -next testing?

That code compiled OK in -mm which includes linux-next.  I assume that
some last-minute merging broke things.

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