Re: [PATCH] acpi: drop support for force_remove

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Apr 14 2017 - 18:39:13 EST


On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 03:54:43 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue 11-04-17 15:48:04, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue 11-04-17 00:15:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >> I'll apply it if nobody has any problems with it.
> >> >
> >> > It is definitely your call but how long are we going to wait
> >> > (considering that the current behavior is obviously broken wrt memory
> >> > hotplug)?
> >>
> >> A couple of days more? Surely not going to push it into 4.11 at this
> >> stage as it is an ABI change.
> >
> > Ohh, I didn't want to push it to 4.11 this late but having it in
> > linux-next might help to catch some users who are not following the
> > mailing list. Going to 4.12 would be really great but I wouldn't really
> > object even 4.13...
>
> 4.12 is probably fine. I don't see a compelling reason to sit on this
> for a whole cycle, FWIW.

It should hit linux-next next week.

Thanks,
Rafael