From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core-yWtbtysYrB+LZ21kGMrzwg@public.gmane.org>
To: "Keshavamurthy,
Anil S"
<anil.s.keshavamurthy-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
ACPI Developers
<acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] properly create kobjects in acpi/scan.c
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:45:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408241745.38898.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB47041A3B61B@orsmsx409>
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:45 pm, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
We would not eliminate it, it would naturally move to something like
/sys/bus/acpi/devices/acpi_root/... and /sys/devices/acpi_root/...
Or something along these lines.
--
Dmitry
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2004-08-24 21:45 [PATCH 1/4] properly create kobjects in acpi/scan.c Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2004-08-24 22:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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2004-08-24 22:47 Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2004-08-24 6:34 Dmitry Torokhov
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2004-08-24 15:23 ` Hiroshi Miura
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2004-08-24 16:15 ` Mattia Dongili
2004-08-24 17:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-24 19:50 ` Len Brown
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