Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262171AbTFIVwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:52:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262169AbTFIVwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:52:20 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:65154 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262171AbTFIVwK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:52:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:03:29 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva To: "Grover, Andrew" Cc: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz , lkml , Alan Cox , "Saxena, Sunil" , "Brown, Len" , "Therien, Guy" Subject: RE: 2.4.22 timeline was RE: 2.4.21-rc7 ACPI broken In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 42 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:marcelo@conectiva.com.br] > > > > Any chance to get patch against latest -rc7 ? > > > > > > It's big, and deemed too risky. We are shooting for 2.4.22-pre1. > > > > Just had a few thoughts about that and I want to have a fast 2.4.22 > > release (maximum two months). 2.4.21's development time was > > unnaceptable. > > > > Lets do the ACPI merge in 2.4.23. > > I wouldn't have a problem with this, except that you've been deferring > the ACPI merge for over a year. We've been maintaining this patch > outside the mainline tree for EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 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. > I am confident it will merge cleanly. > I am confident it will cause no problems when CONFIG_ACPI=off. > I am confident the total number of working machines will go up. > I am willing to bet $500 of MY OWN MONEY on this. > > Talk to me, man. What would make you happy? A lot is riding on this. Yes, we're fine. 2.4.23-pre. 2.4.22 will be a fast enough release to not piss you off on this, trust me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/