Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: Documentation: driver-api: Disapprove of using ACPI drivers

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:47:30PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 12:25:04PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Documenting this is fine, but really, just moving all of the existing
> drivers to not use this and deleting the api entirely might be simplest.
> Looks like the only "new" acpi drivers that show up are in the
> platform/x86/ subsystem, so just tell the maintainers there not to take
> any new ones?

I believe that with or without documentation this will take a few cycles
to get rid of (as there are more than just the PDx86 being involved as of
today). Also there were (and might be in the future) a few attempts to convert
in the opposite direction, i.e. from platform to ACPI driver. Doing something
temporary for a few cycles is okay, no? From my point of view it helps avoiding
the above mentioned cases.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko