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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:18:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060731221841.9195556c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CDBF1E.2010001@ed-soft.at>

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:14 +0200
Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> wrote:

> This Patch add force for mmconfig. On Intel Macs the efi firmaware gives
> a different memory map then ACPI_MCFG provides. This makes the check wether
> to use mmconfig or not fail.

Sorry, you cannot do this.  I already merged this patch into -mm, and
followed that up with two bugfix patches, both of which you were copied on.

Now you're sending out the original patch, without the bugfixes which
Adrian and I prepared.

If you think these patches should be merged into 2.6.18 at this late a
stage, please give reasons and if they're agreeable I can send it all to
Linus.  But sending out known-buggy stuff which has already been fixed
doesn't help anyone.

Also, please don't use filenames as patch descriptions.  See section 2 of
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31  8:28 Edgar Hucek
2006-08-01  5:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-01  5:26   ` Edgar Hucek
2006-08-01  5:46     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01  7:06       ` Edgar Hucek

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