Re: [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: support acpi_device_ops .notify methods

[Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 17:03:19 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:56:28 am Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Monday 30 March 2009 19:48:13 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > This patch adds support for ACPI device driver .notify() methods.  If
> > > such a method is present, Linux/ACPI installs a handler for device
> > > notifications (but not for system notifications such as Bus Check,
> > > Device Check, etc).  When a device notification occurs, Linux/ACPI
> > > passes it on to the driver's .notify() method.
> > I sent more or less the same some years ago.
> > Thanks a lot for finally cleaning this up!
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Oh, sorry, I didn't know that, or I would have given you some credit :-)
> In fact, if you have a URL, I'll add a pointer to the changelog.  I
> always like to leave breadcrumbs to help future research.
I only find the acpi_memhotplug things, but I remember I suggested
(maybe privately?) to introduce a .notify callback.
Hmm, I even had some code, but got cold feet when I realized that not
present devices have to call .add or .start functions...
While this is not much worth crediting :), I just want to give you the
feedback I missed, IMO you are going the right way.

    Thomas