[APPLIED] Re: [Maverick] [PATCH 0/2] Build in the intel_idle driver

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Tue Aug 24 00:12:02 UTC 2010


Per Tim's comment I've squashed these into one patch and applied to
Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:36 -0700, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
> It's been requested that we enable the intel_idle driver.  This allows
> Intel hardware to be more robust against ACPI BIOS bugs and shorcomings
> of the ACPI implementation itself.  We actually already have this driver
> enabled as a module.  However, a recent upstream commit disables module
> support as it can lose an init race with ACPI rendering the driver
> useless.
> 
> The following set of patches cherry-picks the upstream commit to disable
> module support and then updates our Ubuntu configs to build in the
> intel_idle driver.  I'm proposing this for Maverick inclusion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Leann
> 
> Leann Ogasawara (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] Build in intel_idle
> 
> Len Brown (1):
>   intel_idle: disable module support
> 
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu |    2 +-
>  drivers/idle/Kconfig                      |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 






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