On 02/22/13 20:35, Jordan Justen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 02/22/13 19:15, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> On 02/22/13 17:51, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Patches 1 to 6 upgrade the FADT to ACPI 2.0 and present the PIIX3 Reset
>>>>> Control Register in it.
>>>>
>>>> I think maybe 1 should be moved to follow 6.
>>>>
>>>> Series Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Thank you all for the reviews, and Jordan, please feel free to reorder
>>> the series when you commit it; [1..6] and [7..8] are independent.
>>
>> Aah sorry, I misunderstood. You were suggesting to move the table
>> revision bumps *after* the contents changes.
>>
>> I humbly disagree with that (not that the revision numbers matter
>> much...): in theory, seeing a revision bump without contents changes
>> should disturb no consumer, but seeing the contents change without being
>> warned by a revision bump *might*. The latter basically defeats the
>> purpose of revision numbers.
>>
>> (But again, we don't actually care about revision numbers; and even if
>> we did, it'd only matter during bisection.)
>>
>> So anyway I placed the revision bumps as first patch on purpose.
> 
> I guess I always thought the revision bump was a way to trigger the OS
> to re-evaluate the ACPI landscape. In the past, I thought that Windows
> might not notice ACPI changes if the version wasn't bumped. In that
> case, you'd want to make sure the number changed after the changes.

I understand. OK, feel free to move 1 in between 6 & 7.

> (Or, perhaps at each step for bisect.)

Let's not go there :)

Thanks!
Laszlo


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