Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libacpi: Be specific about which DSDT files to build

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/11/16 13:35, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 11/15/2016 01:17 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:52:27PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>> There is no reason to build, for example, dsdt_pvh.asl for hvmloader. We
>>> pass which DSDTs to build via DSDT_FILES parameter.
>>>
>>> If DSDT_FILES is empty all DSDTs for a particular architecture will be 
>>> built.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be strictly necessary for 4.8 though.
> Right.
>
> In fact, I'd argue that even the first patch could wait until after 4.8
> is out given that we are quite late in RC cycle now and it is not fixing
> any bugs.

Patch 1 should definitely be taken into 4.8, so we don't end up with one
release of Xen with a dual-licensed libacpi.

~Andrew

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