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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:26:15 +0200
From: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add-force-of-use-mmconfig.patch
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Andrew Morton schrieb:
> 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.
> 

I see only one bugfix patch in your patches ( add-force-of-use-mmconfig-fix.patch )
which is now included in this patch.

cu

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