Re: [PATCH v7] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Attach using APCI HID "INT33A1"

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sat Sep 07 2019 - 13:42:11 EST


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:44 AM Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:34 PM Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Most modern platforms already have the ACPI device "INT33A1" that could
> > be used to attach to the driver. Switch the driver to using that and
> > thus make the intel_pmc_core.c a pure platform_driver.
> >
> > Some of the legacy platforms though, may still not have this ACPI device
> > in their ACPI tables. Thus for such platforms, move the code to manually
> > instantiate a platform_device into a new file of its own. This would
> > instantiate the intel_pmc_core platform device and thus attach to
> > the driver, if the ACPI device for the same ("INT33A1") is not present
> > in a system where it should be. This was discussed here:
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1966991.html
>
>
> HI Andy, Rajneesh, this seems to have fallen through the cracks. Any
> comments here on this patch?

% git tag --list v5.3* --contains b02f6a2ef0a1
v5.3-rc1

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko