Re: [PATCH 5/6] ACPI: Replace struct acpi_bus_ops with enum type

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Dec 12 2012 - 17:34:02 EST


On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:05:15 PM Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 10:34 PM, Yijing Wang wrote:
> > ä 2012-12-12 2:30, Rafael J. Wysocki åé:
> >> Hi Gerry,
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:09:06 PM Jiang Liu wrote:
> >>> Hi Rafael,
> >>> I have worked out a patch set to clean up ACPI/PCI related notifications,
> >>> please refer to
> >>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg17822.html
> >>> The patchset doesn't apply cleanly to Bjorn's latest pci-next tree. I will
> >>> help to rebase it if needed.
> >>
> >> I have reviewed the patches and I think they make sense overall. However,
> >> the statement that acpi_pci_bind()/acpi_pci_unbind() are used to maintain
> >> PCI-ACPI binding relationships is quite inaccurate, because all what these
> >> functions do is to (1) add/remove ACPI PM notifiers to/from PCI devices and
> >> (2) retrieve the _PRT information for bridges from ACPI tables. In fact,
> >> the *binding* itself is managed by the code in drivers/acpi/glue.c.
> >>
> >> Also, please have a look at my suggestion in the last reply to Yinghai:
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=135522965707752&w=2
> >>
> >> In fact, I think we can go even further than that. Namely, if we populate the
> >> ACPI handle of the device in pci_scan_device(), then we can just move the PM
> >> notifier and wakeup setup to platform_pci_wakeup_init(), where it should be
> >> (we'll also need to add a corresponding _exit() function, then, but that'll be
> >> much cleaner anyway).
> >>
> >> Then, the remaining thing would be to ensure that _PRT entries are parsed
> >> as appropriate somewhere around pci_init_capabilities().
> >>
> >> Also, I wonder if you can help test the $subject patchset on a system with
> >> hardware PCI hotplug (preferably on top of the linux-pm.git/master branch)?
> >>
> > Hi Rafael,
> > We are doing test for this series patches, I will send out the test result as soon.
> Hi Rafael,
> We have tried to merge your patchset with IOH hotplug patchsets from Yinghai,
> and obviously it's not a ease task and we have run into panics. We will try to find
> some ways to test your patchset only next step.

Thanks a lot for doing this, really appreciated!

Rafael


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