Re: [net-next: PATCH 09/12] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: introduce DSA description

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:37:46PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:

...

> MRVL0100 is pretty meaningless, but marvell,orion-mdio gives you a
> much better idea what the device is. That i would say is the key of
> the problem here. Without knowing what MRVL0100 means, it is hard to
> guess the rest.

As I pointed out they may use _DDN which will be part of the DSDT independenly
of the ACPICA version (`iasl` may add comments on the devices it knows) or any
other ACPI tools. The cons of this is the unused bulk in the ACPI tables,
meaning wasted space in firmware.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko