linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/30] ACPICA: 20160318 Release

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:38:17 +0200
From:	Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@...e.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Lv Zheng <zetalog@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] ACPICA: 20160318 Release

Hi Rafael,

On 24/03/16 14:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com> wrote:
>> The 20160318 ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem updates are linuxized based
>> on the linux-pm/linux-next branch.
>>
>> The patchset has passed the following build/boot tests.
>> Build tests are performed as follows:
>> 1. i386 + allyes
>> 2. i386 + allno
>> 3. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>> 4. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=n + ACPI_DEBUG=y
>> 5. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUG=n + ACPI=y
>> 6. i386 + default + ACPI=n
>> 7. x86_64 + allyes
>> 8. x86_64 + allno
>> 9. x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>> 10.x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=n + ACPI_DEBUG=y
>> 11.x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUG=n + ACPI=y
>> 12.x86_64 + default + ACPI=n
>> Boot tests are performed as follows:
>> 1. i386 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>> 2. x86_64 + default + ACPI_DEBUGGER=y
>> Where:
>> 1. i386: machine named as "Dell Inspiron Mini 1010"
>> 2. x86_64: machine named as "HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF PC"
>> 3. default: kernel configuration with following items enabled:
>>     All hardware drivers related to the machines of i386/x86_64
>>     All "drivers/acpi" configurations
>>     All "drivers/platform" drivers
>>     All other drivers that link the APIs provided by ACPICA subsystem
>>
>> The divergences checking result:
>> Before applying (20160212 Release):
>>    506 lines
>> After applying (20160318 Release):
>>    494 lines
>>
>> Al Stone (1):
>>    ACPICA: IORT: Add in support for the SMMUv3 subtable
>>
>> Aleksey Makarov (1):
>>
>>
>> Bob Moore (16):
>>    ACPICA: Headers: Minor update for SPCR ACPI table
>>    ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Updates for the HEST ACPI table
>>    ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Update NFIT table for additional new fields
>>    ACPICA: Headers: Update DMAR table for October 2014 I/O spec
>>    ACPICA: Tables: Update FADT handling
>>    ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Add full support for this version of ACPI spec
>>    ACPICA: iASL/Headers: Fix incorrect definition of FPDT table
>>    ACPICA: Intepreter: Add object extensions to Concatenate operand
>>    ACPICA: Interpreter: Update some function headers, no functional
>>      change
>>    ACPICA: iASL: Cleanup/optimization for ToPLD macro support
>>    ACPICA: Cleanup some invocation indentations, no functional change
>>    ACPICA: Headers: Update generation of the ACPICA library
>>    ACPICA: Utilities: Update for strtoul64 merger
>>    ACPICA: All: const keyword changes across the ACPICA source
>>    ACPICA: iASL/Disassembler: Improve handling of unresolved methods
>>    ACPICA: Update version to 20160318
>>
>> Lv Zheng (11):
>>    ACPICA: Linuxize: reduce divergences for 20160212 release
>>    ACPICA: Linuxize: Remove useless platform headers
>>    ACPICA: Utilities: Add ACPI_IS_POWER_OF_TWO()
>>    Utilities: Fix missing parentheses in ACPI_GET_BITS()/ACPI_SET_BITS()
>>    ACPICA: Hardware: Enhance acpi_hw_validate_register() with
>>      access_width/bit_offset awareness
>>    ACPICA: Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support in
>>      acpi_hw_read()
>>    ACPICA: Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support for
>>      acpi_hw_write()
>>    ACPICA: Interpreter: Fix wrong conditions for
>>      acpi_ev_install_region_handlers() invocation
>>    ACPICA: Tables: Fix wrong MLC condition for dynamic table loading
>>    ACPICA: Events: Fix an issue that _REG association can happen before
>>      namespace is initialized
>>    ACPICA: Namespace: Reorder \_SB._INI to make sure it is evaluated
>>      before _REG evaluations
>>
>> Will Miles (1):
>>    ACPICA: Add support for QNX 6.6 platform
>
> This is too late to go in during the current merge window, but I'll
> queue it up and send a separate pull request for 4.6 with it next
> week.
>
> I'll fix up the whitespace breakage in the first patch (it is easy
> enough to fix up manually), but as Len said, please fix the process to
> avoid such things in the future.
>

I wasn't able to spot this series in linux-next, epsecially patch 03/30:
"ACPICA: Headers: Add new constants for the DBG2 ACPI table"

Can you please clarify what happened?

Thanks a lot,
Matthias