Re: [PATCH V6 09/11] ACPI: introduce flag .is_master_device

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed May 21 2014 - 04:52:19 EST


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:44:14PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> For some ACPI device objects, they represent master devices,
> and their children devices are enumerated by bus controller drivers
> for the buses they are on.
>
> In this case, we do not want to enumerate their children devices to
> platform bus explicitly in acpi scan code.
>
> Thus a new flag .is_master_device is introduced in this patch.
>
> For devices with this flag set, we will not do default enumeration
> for their children.

Is there any particular reason we would like to enumerate everything
below the first device by default?
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