[Update][PATCH 0/3] ACPI: Simplify "glueing" to physical nodes

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Nov 19 2012 - 19:56:53 EST


On Sunday, November 18, 2012 10:10:33 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, November 18, 2012 05:55:39 PM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:24:45PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Well, maybe there is one. Perhaps we can make acpi_platform_notify()
> > > call acpi_bind_one() upfront and only if that fails, do the whole
> > > type->find_device() dance? Of course, acpi_bind_one() would need to
> > > be modified slightly too, like in the patch below.
> > >
> > > If we did that, acpi_i2c_add_device() would only need to assign acpi_handle
> > > as appropriate before calling i2c_new_device() (and analogously for SPI).
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > This is certainly better than the thing we use currently. It makes adding
> > I2C and SPI support much shorter and simpler. If others don't object I
> > would suggest that we switch to use this method.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> The first of the following two patches is a slightly modified version of the
> one that you commented. Patch [2/2] implements the idea for platform devices
> and since it modifies struct platform_device_info, I'm adding a CC to Greg.
>
> The patches are on top of current linux-pm.git/linux-next.
>
> It looks like we may be able to use this approach for PCI too, in which case
> the whole .find_device() stuff won't be necessary any more.

Following is the series with the Greg's feedback taken into account.
Patch [1/3] is the same as before with the bug found by Mika fixed, [2/3] is
an additional patch adding struct acpi_dev_node to compile out unused stuff if
CONFIG_ACPI is not set and [3/3] is the previous [2/2] rebased on top of it.

Thanks,
Rafael


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