Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:54:27 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
       Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>, Dann Frazier <dannf@debian.org>,
       linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] PNP debugging rework
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 04:53:10PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> These patches add support for a boot-time switch to enable PNP debug
> messages.  Currently, users have to recompile with CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG=y
> to get PNP debug messages.
> 
> I copied the implementation strategy from Greg KH's USB patches:
>     http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/8/529
> 
> These patches don't fix any bugs, and I know it's pretty late to
> consider new stuff for 2.6.27.  The only reason to even consider them
> is that 2.6.27 includes a significant PNP rewrite, and if 2.6.27 ends
> up in a distro kernel, it will be much easier to work on problems if
> users can collect debug information without rebuilding the kernel.

I would have pushed them up because they look harmless enough,
but after Linus' recent rant on merging windows on linux-kernel I've 
reconsidered.  Will queue them for .28 in test.

-Andi (Chicken) 
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