Re: [PATCH rev.2 1/6] ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects fromprobing ACPI drivers

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Dec 18 2012 - 16:11:40 EST


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 10:59 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 02:48 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> >
>> > So, I would propose the following changes.
>> >
>> > - Move the acpi_hot_add_bind() call back to the original place after
>> > the device_attach() call.
>> > - Rename the name of acpi_hot_add_bind() to something like
>> > acpi_bind_adr_device() since it is no longer hot-add only (and is
>> > specific to _ADR devices).
>> > - Create its pair function, acpi_unbind_adr_device(), which is called
>> > from acpi_bus_remove(). When a constructor interface is introduced, its
>> > destructor should be introduced as well.
>> > - Remove the binding procedure from acpi_pci_root_add(). This should
>> > be done in patch [2/6].
>>
>> i think we should put jiang four patches before Rafael's patches.
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-pci-jiang-hotplug
>
> Thanks for the pointer! Oh, I did not know that pci_dev gets removed
> before acpi_bus_trim() is called...

yes. that is
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=commitdiff;h=8b4b836d8c56c290bc80ffa0b08b91fb3fe38867

> I looked at Jiang's last two
> patches for the bind update, and they look good to me.
>
> Thanks,
> -Toshi
>
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