linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option

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Message-ID: <20160501161707.GA1441@sophia>
Date:	Sun, 1 May 2016 12:17:07 -0400
From:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig
 option

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 08:18:26AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:48:42AM -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:38:38PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >Ah, ok, so it's for enabling real hardware, not just a cleanup, right? You might 
>> >want to put that info into the boilerplate mail or so.
>> >
>> >I'm perfectly fine with all the patches that touch x86 code:
>> >
>> >  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>> >
>> >I suppose you'd like to have these in the driver tree, all in one place?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >	Ingo
>> 
>> Ah yes, in retrospect I should have made it clear that this was for
>> supporting hardware rather than simply code cleanup. That was an
>> oversight on my part not to have made it more explicit.
>> 
>> Introducing everything to the driver tree would be most convenient, thus
>> allowing me to quickly release my subsequent patches which will be
>> rebased on top of these.
>
>Ok, I can take these.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h

Forgive me for probing again; what is that status of this patchset? I'm
anxious to see them accepted to prevent the regression introduced by the
ISA_BUS configuration option from appearing in the next merge window.

Many thanks,

William Breathitt Gray