Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Add ACPI _DSD and unified device properties support

[Grant Likely]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:50 +0200
, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:
> On Friday, October 17, 2014 08:04:52 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > On October 17, 2014 2:01:33 PM CEST, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > >Hving had a couple of chats with Grant and Arnd during LinuxCon EU/LPC,
> > >we
> > >now have version 5 taking all feedback into account (hopefully).
> > 
> > Awesome, that was really fast. I'm currently on my way his me in
> > the train, replying from my phone, but it looks good now. I'll have a more
> > detailed look next week but I'm definitely happy to see this go in (to next
> > and 3.19) now, any details we still find can be fixed on top.
> > 
> > > In
> > >short, if
> > >we are passed a struct fwnode_handle pointer, we can get from it to the
> > >appropriate device node pointer (either struct acpi_device or struct
> > >device_node)
> > >using container_of() after we've checked the type.  This is needed for
> > >the code
> > >that needs to access child nodes of a device in case when they don't
> > >have
> > >struct device representations (whatever the reason).  This has been
> > >suggested
> > >by Grant and pretty much everyone involved agrees that it's better that
> > >the
> > >alternatives presented so far.
> > 
> > Yes, it's nice enough that I now take back all the objections I had for the
> > child accessory API.
> 
> Cool, thanks!
> 
> I've just refreshed the device-properties branch of the linux-pm.git tree
> and it contains the current material now (including a couple of build
> fixes reported by the autobuild robot in patches [02/12] and [09/12]).
> 
> My plan is to merge this into the linux-next branch when 3.18-rc1 is out.

Wait for my ack please, but I should be able to review it this weekend
or on Monday. I'm actually reviewing now, but I'm on a plane near the
end of the flight. As soon as I get on the ground SIGFAMILY will
interrupt me for a bit. :-)

g.
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