linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the acpi tree with the pci tree

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Message-Id: <200912011340.21370.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:40:19 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the acpi tree with the pci tree

On Monday 30 November 2009 03:26:05 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 07:22:28 pm Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Today's linux-next merge of the acpi tree got a conflict in
> > drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c between commit
> > 204d49a5613a06eb2fa5c3b842a29b1336cc7995 ("PCI hotplug: move IOAPIC
> > support from acpiphp to ioapic driver") from the pci tree and commit
> > 2263576cfc6e8f6ab038126c3254404b9fcb1c33 ("ACPICA: Add post-order
> > callback to acpi_walk_namespace") from the acpi tree.
> > 
> > The former moved part of the code modified by the latter into another
> > file.  All the calls to acpi_walk_namespace() seem to have been removed
> > in this process.
> 
> I was on vacation last week, so couldn't respond earlier, sorry.
> 
> As you noticed, 204d49a56 removed some acpi_walk_namespace() calls.
> It removed calls to the old "pre-order only" version, while 263576cfc
> converted acpi_walk_namespace() to a new "pre-order and post-order"
> version.
> 
> This is conceptually simple because 204d49a56 is just removing uses
> of acpi_walk_namespace(), so we don't care at all whether it removes
> calls to the old or new version.  But I don't have enough git-fu to
> know how to fix this.

Has this been resolved already?  Is there anything I can do to help?

Bjorn
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