Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] platform/x86: Stop using acpi_device_name/class()

[Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 01:15:01PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There are two fields in struct acpi_device_pnp, device_name and device_class,
> > > > that were supposed to be populated and used by device drivers, but they have
> > > > never been used consistently and some drivers just populate them and don't
> > > > access them later, and some drivers use them uninitialized.
> > > >
> > > > All of that is confusing and messy, so the drivers for core ACPI devices
> > > > have been updated to stop using those fields which are now slated for
> > > > removal, but they are still accessed in some places.
> > > >
> > > > This series updates platform x86 drivers accessing those fields to stop
> > > > doing that.
> > >
> > > In most of the patches you have double space in your name in From.
> >
> > Do you mean the From header in the patch body or the From header in
> > the SMTP headers?
>
> At least SMTP. TBH, I haven't paid attention to the From lines in the bodies.

Well, those are the ones that matter though because git will use them
to override the SMTP From header (and so they need to match the S-o-b,
not the SMTP From).