From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shuah Khan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for sysfs eject Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:31 -0600 Message-ID: <1336668931.2581.27.camel@lorien2> References: <1336507944-10219-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1336507944-10219-4-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1336581973.2498.15.camel@lorien2> <1336587377.16730.150.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> <1336664428.2581.21.camel@lorien2> <1336667664.16730.201.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> Reply-To: shuahkhan@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:18081 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757149Ab2EJQzd (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 12:55:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1336667664.16730.201.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Toshi Kani Cc: shuahkhan@gmail.com, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:34 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > _OST is the ACPI standard method for the platform to receive the status > of hotplug operations. Some platforms may require the OS to support > _OST in order to support ACPI hotplug operations. For instance, if the > platform has the management console where user can request a hotplug > operation from, this _OST support would be required for the management > console to show the result of a hotplug request to user. > This will be a good information capture in the change log. Thanks Toshi. It is interesting to have platforms require optional methods. Guess you can never rule out weirdness in how these Specs. actually get implemented :) -- Shuah