linux-kernel - Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft

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Message-ID: <4BBE180C.80901@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:53:16 -0700
From:	Yinghai <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH 1/1] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region()
 to find_ibft_region()

On 04/08/2010 10:28 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I am definitely ACK-ing. Sorry about not explicitly stating that.
>> The developer is Yinghai Lu, I am the co-maintainer of the iBFT driver.
>>
>> Linus, would you like me to modify the commit so that it has 'Acked-by:'
>> by me in the git tree?
> 
> No, no, a sign-off is already an ack, and is "stronger" than an ack, since 
> it actually also means that you send it onwards. A patch that you don't 
> like you would obviously never sign off on either.
> 
> I was more looking for comments from other people who know what the heck 
> that early reservation system does.

the patched is in mainline already in mainline through tip path by HPA.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=042be38e6106ed70b42d096ab4a1ed4187e510e6

Thanks

Yinghai
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