linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI video support fixes for v3.11

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:40:49 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI video support fixes for v3.11

On Sunday, July 21, 2013 10:15:31 AM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> >
> > I'm sending a separate pull request for this as it may be somewhat
> > controversial.
> 
> Ugh. That's an understatement, and I hate the timing.

Sorry about that.

The choice was between sending it now and sitting on it until the 3.12 merge
window pretty much without any additional data points.

> That said, it looks like it should be easy to revert if it causes
> problems, and I guess it won't become better from waiting until the
> next merge window.

Precisely.

> And the problems are hopefully going to be pretty easily pinpointed to
> this.. So I've pulled it.

Thanks a lot!

Rafael

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