From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving the handling of GPE enabling. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:11:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20050310101133.GD13444@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1110318037.3663.19.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au> <1110331896.12642.16.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20050309222122.GA32516@elf.ucw.cz> <1110431446.9336.60.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110431446.9336.60.camel@d845pe> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Len Brown Cc: Shaohua Li , ncunningham-3EexvZdKGZRWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, ACPI List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On =C4=8Ct 10-03-05 00:10:47, Len Brown wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:21, Pavel Machek wrote: >=20 > > > 4. ACPI devices are in many different physical buses. If we just de= fine > > > an ACPI bus, we possibly can't show the bus hierarchy. > >=20 > > Maybe ACPI device should be "under" real hardware one? >=20 > I suspect that the current sysfs device tree hierarchy is largely > fiction and that Linux would be better served by taking advantage of th= e > hierarchy embodied in the DSDT. Funny, I'd say that DSDT hierarchy is fiction and ... :-). > The "ACPI devices" such as power, sleep, lid as well as the battery are > represented at the root level in the DSDT. It probably does not matter where power/sleep/lid are represented, but things like ide-disk below ide-controller below pci bus make sense to me (and we need that hierarchy for suspend/resume anyway). For devices like lid... yeh, there's not much hierarchy there, just select some place. Pavel --=20 People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click