RE: [PATCH 1/4] properly create kobjects in acpi/scan.c

Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2004-08-24T21:45:18Z

>> Btw, why don't we just convert ACPI to be standard driver core bus
>> with standard drivers and devices? I could cook up something... The
>> /sys/firmware/acpi hierarchy is not populated with any
>useful data yet
>> so there should be no concern of breakign userspace interface (I am
>> mot talking about removing /proc/acpi part at the moment).
>
>Funny you should mention it.
>
>My current opinion is that /sys/firmware/acpi should probably
>not exist at all, and that there should be a single
>/sys/devices including both ACPI-enumerated and pci-enumerated
>devices. Adam and I have been ganging up on Patrick on this,
>but we don't have him convinced yet...
>
For my hotplug work I am currently banking on
/sys/firmware/acpi/namespace/ACPI
to find the all the children devices and from there to find the
corresponding logical
devices. Once I find the all child devices then the scripts would turn
online or offline of all the child devices.

If we are proposing to eliminate /sys/firmware/acpi can anyone pass a
pointer to the above discussion.

Thanks,
Anil Keshavamurthy