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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:59 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: What's happening with the cpuidle code?
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On 09/04/2007 05:43 PM, Len Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 16:47, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> A look at the 'cpuidle' branch of git-acpi shows a commit
>> e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4, "cpuidle: first
>> round of documentation updates" that doesn't show up in that
>> branch online. The entire Documentation/cpuidle directory
>> is missing from the tree when looking at the web pages, and
>> it's missing from git-acpi.patch in 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 (but the
>> patch shows up in the summary information in the patch
>> header.) Where did it go? And how can -mm be used to test
>> things if its patches don't even match their own headers?
> 
> A later patch in that series, "cpuidle: re-write", reverted
> the documentation from the intermediate patch that you refer to:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2305a5920fb8ee6ccec1c62ade05aa8351091d71

It never occurred to me that a patch would just remove documentation.
Thanks for looking into that...