Re: [PATCH] sungem: add support for G5 PowerMac, some PM fixes

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 02:16:34 EST


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 18:01, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:13:12 +1100
>
> Anyway, here's the fixed version.
>
> Applied, thanks. This one might have to wait for 2.6.3-pre1 though
> for merging.

That's fine, the rest of the PowerMac updates are waiting for 2.6.3 too.
> The 2.4 backport will come next week hopefully when I'll walk
> through all my pending 2.4 stuffs, I want to dbl check a few things
> in it first (and I'm not yet 100% certain I will merge the G5
> support in 2.4 upstream anyway).
>
> You should be able to literally copy the 2.6.x driver into the 2.4.x
> tree with perhaps only a one liner or two (if that).

Yes. I'll do that along with other things I need to backport.

> the new PCI ID isn't yet in Linus tree, but it's in the patches
> I'm currently sending to Andrew.
>
> I'd prefer in the future you not do it this way, just give it
> instead within the driver update so that you patch by itself
> stands alone.

Ok.

Ben.


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