From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262441AbUEFPKp (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262459AbUEFPKp (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:10:45 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26076 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262441AbUEFPKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:10:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:10:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: pazke@donpac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie Subject: Re: [RFC] DMI cleanup patches Message-Id: <20040506081012.6cb4ab2f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20040506102904.GA3295@pazke> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Andrey Panin wrote: > > > > currently arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file looks like complete > > mess. Interfacing with other kernel subsystem made using > > ad-hoc ways, mostly with ugly global variables, additionaly > > coding style is ... not good. So these patches appear: > > The patches look good by me, but I'd rather leave them to after 2.6.6, > since they seem to be cleanups rather than serious bug-fixes. > There is a significant amount of work pending in the DRM development tree at http://drm.bkbits.net/drm-2.6 (which is included in -mm). Andrey's zeroeth patch alone tosses three rejects against it. David, now would be a good time to start getting that code ready for a merge. Andrey, you should rebase your patches on top of the DRM tree, or -mm, and copy David on the emails. Thanks.