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* [PATCH 00/10] make every acpi_device have a HID
@ 2009-08-24 16:38 Bjorn Helgaas
  2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: fix leak in debug code Bjorn Helgaas
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From: Bjorn Helgaas @ 2009-08-24 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Len Brown
  Cc: linux-acpi, Hugh Dickins, Valdis Kletnieks, Lin Ming,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

This series was prompted by an issue we saw recently in the mm tree:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/422

Synopsis:

    Linux/ACPI discovered a video device.  The device had no _HID or _CID
    methods, but based on acpi_is_video_device(), we added a sythetic CID
    ("LNXVIDEO"), so the device ended up with a CID but no HID.

    We bound the acpi_video_bus (drivers/acpi/video.c) driver to the device
    based on the CID.  This driver has a .notify() method, so we tried to
    install a notify handler on the device.  This uses strcmp() on the
    device HID to determine whether it's a fixed hardware device, and this
    oopsed because this device had no HID.

    This used to work because the HID was stored in an array that was
    initialized to zeroes, but a recent change replaced this with a pointer
    that is NULL until a HID is set.

This thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124959955813409&w=2
has patches that work around this by basically returning a pointer to an
empty string rather than a NULL pointer in this case.

However, the HID is a pretty central part of an acpi_device, and I think it
complicates the driver model too much to deal with HIDs that might be empty
strings.  I think it's better for Linux/ACPI to just make sure that *every*
acpi_device has at least one ID (either a HID, a CID, or a synthetic ID).

The main place this default "device" ID appears is with ACPI devices that
just have _ADR methods, e.g., PCI slots.

This series:
    - Applies on top of this previous series:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124907619701194&w=2
      (Len said these were applied to acpi-test, but I haven't actually
      seen that yet.)
    - Fixes a memory leak introduced by the previous series.  Could be
      folded into:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124907622001229&w=2
      if git tree management allows.
    - Fixes the synthetic HID for \_SB_.  This has been broken for a long
      time, so we've been seeing "device:00" instead of "LNXSYBUS" in
      sysfs.
    - Makes sure every acpi_device has a default "device" HID if nothing
      else.  (We already used "device" in sysfs if we didn't have a HID or
      CID.)
    - Adds a single list containing the HID and any CIDs.  No users make a
      distinction between them, so maintaining them separately just made
      things complicated.
    - Removes the _UID stuff, which nobody uses.

---

Bjorn Helgaas (10):
      ACPI: fix leak in debug code
      ACPI: add ACPI_IS_ROOT_DEVICE()
      ACPI: fix synthetic HID for \_SB_
      ACPI: use acpi_device_hid() when possible
      ACPI: make sure every acpi_device has an ID
      ACPI: maintain a single list of _HID and _CID IDs
      ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.compatible_ids
      ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.hardware_id
      ACPI: remove acpi_device_uid() and related stuff
      ACPI: simplify building device HID/CID list


 drivers/acpi/scan.c        |  260 +++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c |   21 ++--
 include/acpi/acpi_bus.h    |   19 +--
 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 183 deletions(-)

-- 
Bjorn

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2009-08-24 16:38 [PATCH 00/10] make every acpi_device have a HID Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: fix leak in debug code Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 02/10] ACPI: add ACPI_IS_ROOT_DEVICE() Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 03/10] ACPI: fix synthetic HID for \_SB_ Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 04/10] ACPI: use acpi_device_hid() when possible Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:38 ` [PATCH 05/10] ACPI: make sure every acpi_device has an ID Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 06/10] ACPI: maintain a single list of _HID and _CID IDs Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 07/10] ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.compatible_ids Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 08/10] ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.hardware_id Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 09/10] ACPI: remove acpi_device_uid() and related stuff Bjorn Helgaas
2009-08-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 10/10] ACPI: simplify building device HID/CID list Bjorn Helgaas

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