linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] pnp: add PNP resource range checking function

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Message-Id: <20090609150944.6ffa8038.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:09:44 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Cc:	penberg@...helsinki.fi, elendil@...net.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...onical.com,
	colin.king@...onical.com, tim.gardner@...onicalc.com,
	bjorn.helgaas@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pnp: add PNP resource range checking function

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:53:59 -0700
Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 10:28 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Hi Frans,
> > 
> > Frans Pop wrote:
> > >> Add a PNP resource range check function, indicating whether a resource
> > >> has been assigned to any device.
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't this patch come *before* your patch 1/2?
> > > You now seem to use this function in a commit where it has not yet been 
> > > defined, which could result in build errors during bisections.
> > 
> > Yes, correct. Sorry about that!
> > 
> > 			Pekka
> 
> This is already in drm-intel-next
> 

Neither patch is in linux-next.  So either a) drm-intel-next contains
2.6.31 material or b) your processes broke.

Either way, these patches fix a "serious performance regression".  They
should be merged into 2.6.30 or 2.6.30.x, shouldn't they?

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