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

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 18:45:12 EST


On Thursday, February 20, 2014 09:26:39 AM Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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.

I will.

> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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