Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] i2c: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Sun Jul 03 2016 - 20:34:37 EST
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:19:08PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> This patch adds supports for I2C device enumeration and removal via
> ACPI reconfiguration notifications that are send as a result of an
> ACPI table load or unload operation.
>
> The code is very similar with the device tree reconfiguration code
> with only small differences in the way we test and set the enumerated
> state of the device:
>
> * the equivalent of device tree's OF_POPULATED flag is the
> flags.visited field in the ACPI device and the following
> wrappers are used to manipulate it: acpi_device_enumerated(),
> acpi_device_set_enumerated() and acpi_device_clear_enumerated()
>
> * the device tree code checks of status of the OF_POPULATED flag to
> avoid trying to create duplicate Linux devices in two places: once
> when the controller is probed, and once when the reconfigure event
> is received; in the ACPI code the check is performed only once when
> the ACPI namespace is searched because this code path is invoked in
> both of the two mentioned cases
>
> The rest of the enumeration handling is similar with device tree: when
> the Linux device is unregistered the ACPI device is marked as not
> enumerated; also, when a device remove notification is received we
> check that the device is in the enumerated state before continuing
> with the removal of the Linux device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It has Mika's ack already, but to make sure:
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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