Re: [Update][PATCH 6/9] ACPI / ATA: Add hotplug contexts to ACPI companions of SATA devices

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 09:27:17 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:47:19AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Modify the SATA subsystem to add hotplug contexts to ACPI companions
> of SATA devices and ports instead of registering special ACPI dock
> operations using register_hotplug_dock_device().
>
> That change will allow the entire code handling those special ACPI
> dock operations to be dropped in the next commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> As noted by Aaron, the hotplug contexts are not freed during ATA device
> unregistration, but that is not necessary, because the struct acpi_device
> things they are attached to never go away. However, they obviously should
> not be created more than once per struct acpi_device, so I've modified the
> patch to skip the creation of hotplug contexts for devices that already
> have them.

Please feel free to route with the rest of acpi changes.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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