Re: 2.4.22 timeline was RE: 2.4.21-rc7 ACPI broken

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

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> On 06.18, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Eric Valette wrote:
> >
> > > Marcelo Tosati wrote:
> > >
> > >  >The main reason I didnt want to merge it was due to its size. Its just
> > >  >too big.
> > >
> > >  >> Please stop leading me along. Will you EVER merge it?
> > >
> > >  >Yes, I want to, and will merge it. In 2.4.23-pre.
> > >
> > > This kind of mails and sentence makes you lost your credibility :
> > > 	1) You said that ACPI will be merged in 2.4.22-pre,
> > > 	2) For many people ACPI (and aic7xxx) is top priority for 2.4 kernel
> > > (see various post including alan). The reason being that most laptop are
> > > unusable nowadays without ACPI,
> > > 	3) You do not explicitely says what you plan for 2.4.22...
> >
> > My plan for 2.4.22 is:
> >
> >  - Include the new aic7xxx driver.
> >  - Include ACPI. (I now realized its importance). Already discussing with
> >    Andrew the best way to do it.
> >  - Fix the latency/interactivity problems (Chris, Nick and Andrea working
> > on that)
> >  - Merge obviously correct -aa VM patches.
> >
> > Those are the most important things that are needed now, I think.
> >
>
> Would you accept small canges like -march (gcc_check) for x86 ?

I'm not aware of this patch. I might well accecpt it.

Please submit it with a good explanation and I will consider it.