Re: [PATCH] acpi/hmat: Update acpi_hmat_type enum with ACPI_HMAT_TYPE_PROXIMITY

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 09:54:35AM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 05:07:12PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 5:02 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:13:10AM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> > > > ACPI 6.3 changed the subtable "Memory Subsystem Address Range Structure"
> > > > to "Memory Proximity Domain Attributes Structure".
> > > >
> > > > Updating and renaming of the structure was included in commit:
> > > > ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: HMAT updates (9a8d961f1ef835b0d338fbe13da03cb424e87ae5)
> > >
> > > I was not really happy with that HMAT update. Platforms implementing
> > > 6.2's HMAT continue to exist even if 6.3 isn't backward compatible. We
> > > just lost the original subtable definition.
> > 
> > Well, that's true, sadly, but the question is what to do in the kernel.
> > 
> > Definitely, the 6.3 format needs to be supported, but if the 6.2 ships
> > anywhere in practice, that will need to be supported too.
> 
> So, what's the usual practice when ACPI tables are updated?
> Do we define separate 6.2 and 6.3 versions of this subtable and let
> the kernel figure out which one its looking at?

Yeah, I think either new struct definitions for incompatible versions,
or unions for conflicting members would be good.

But I think Rafael is saying we only care if someone's shipping platform
implements a particular version. I don't happen to know which ACPI
version platforms I'm interested are going to release with, so I have
HMAT supporting either right now. The 6.3 update wasn't difficult to
handle this time.