From: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] ACPI/platform: Add ACPI ID for Intel MBI device
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:44:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131204024452.GB8282@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131204022130.GA26084@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:21:30AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:17:03PM -0800, David E. Box wrote:
> > This is per the requirement in Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt:
> >
> > "Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI
> > device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add
> > the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in
> > drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c"
>
> Well sure, but why do you need to be a platform device at all? This
> functionality was intended for cases where we already have a driver for
> the part that enumerated it via some other mechanism. If the driver's
> only intended for ACPI systems then why not just be an ACPI device?
>
It was my understanding that with ACPI 5.0 it was becoming more common to use
ACPI ID's exclusively for device enumeration. I originally wrote this as an
acpi_bus driver but Rafeal advised me that the model is being phased out and
suggeted the platform model instead.
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-04 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-22 6:05 [PATCH 1/2] New Driver for IOSF-SB MBI access on Intel SOCs David E. Box
2013-11-22 6:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / platform: Add ACPI ID for Intel IOSF-SB David E. Box
2013-11-22 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] New Driver for IOSF-SB MBI access on Intel SOCs Matthew Garrett
2013-11-24 0:41 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-12-03 23:59 ` [PATCHv2 0/2] New driver for Intel IOSF MBI access David E. Box
2013-12-03 23:59 ` [PATCHv2 1/2] New Driver for IOSF-SB MBI access on Intel SOCs David E. Box
2013-12-04 6:44 ` Andi Kleen
2013-12-03 23:59 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] ACPI/platform: Add ACPI ID for Intel MBI device David E. Box
2013-12-04 1:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-04 2:17 ` David E. Box
2013-12-04 2:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-04 2:44 ` David E. Box [this message]
2013-12-04 2:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-04 21:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-05 20:01 ` [PATCH] X86 platform: New IOSF-SB MBI driver for Intel SOCs David E. Box
2013-12-05 22:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-06 20:59 ` [PATCH] X86 platform: New BayTrail IOSF-SB MBI driver David E. Box
2013-12-07 1:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-10 1:11 ` David E. Box
2013-12-19 22:37 ` [PATCH v5][RESEND] " David E. Box
2013-12-20 1:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-20 7:01 ` David E. Box
2013-12-30 18:12 ` [PATCH v6] " David E. Box
2014-01-07 18:03 ` [PATCH v6][RESEND] platform: x86: " David E. Box
2014-01-07 18:15 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-01-07 18:48 ` David E. Box
2014-01-07 19:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-01-07 20:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-07 21:43 ` David E. Box
2014-01-08 0:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-08 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-08 5:27 ` David E. Box
2014-01-08 13:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-08 21:27 ` [PATCH v7] arch: x86: New MailBox support driver for Intel SOC's David E. Box
2014-01-10 22:10 ` [tip:x86/platform] " tip-bot for David E. Box
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