Re: ACPI hot-plug notification help needed

[Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:13:30PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 2:55 pm, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote:
> > Once we have the
> > core ACPI changes done, we need to clean up the affected drivers
> > and all of this has to get comitted at once. This is going to be
> > a huge efforts in terms of testing:-)
> 
> Better now than later then, I guess.  As far as I can see, this
> affects acpi_memhotplug, container, processor_core, and acpiphp.
> Are these widely used yet?  Do distros support them?  These drivers
> seem fairly immature, so I'm curious about why the testing should
> be so onerous.
Not sure about any distros specifically enabling this stuff but 
some of the code are common for boot path too, hence our changes 
affect lots of system. If we don't have any complains booting then
that is more than 80% coverage and rest 20% is specifically targetting
the hotplug path for CPU, Memory and Rootbridge.

Cheers,
-Anil


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