Re: [PATCH 0/4] ACPI: kill acpi_pci_root_start

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 of October 2012 15:46:39 Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > Your patches seem to affect all devices in the ACPI namespace added after
>> > boot, though, not only host bridges.
>>
>> yes, but it still should be safe.
>
> I'm not really sure of that (what about undock/dock, for exmaple?) and it's
> damn ugly.

only one acpi_driver has .start , that is acpi_pci_root_driver.

should be clean than with .add/start pair.

>
>> > And the problem seems to be that the scanning of the ACPI namespace and
>> > configuring the host bridge are kind of independent operations now.  What
>> > we should do, actually, seems to be something like this:
>> >
>> > (1) Configure the host bridge when discovered (i.e. do what the current
>> >     acpi_pci_root_add() does.
>> > (2) Parse the ACPI namespace under the host bridge (without binding ACPI
>> >     drivers to the struct acpi_device objects created in the process,
>> >     because they are known to correspond to PCI devices).
>> > (3) Run pci_bus_add_devices() for the bridge.
>> >
>> > in one routine.
>>
>> problem is still there. if 1 still has acpi_pci_root_add and pci_acpi_scan_root
>
> OK, so why don't we do (2) in acpi_pci_root_add(), before pci_acpi_scan_root()
> is called?
>
>> that scan pci devices. what is need is we need to bind 1 and 3 together.

some one already walk the acpi space, and during that it create
acpi_device for pci_root
and then attach driver for that, aka acpi_pci_root_add is executing.

Now you want to walking the acpi acpi space to create children devices
before device_add really done for that pci root
acpi device. ?

is that some kind of nesting?

>
> I don't understand now.  You said previously that we need the ACPI namespace
> below the bridge to be scanned before (3), so why do you want to do (3) before
> (2) now?

purpose is calling pci_bus_add_devices in pci_acpi_scan_root.

Yinghai
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