Re: [PATCH 2/3] ACPICA: Add interface for getting latest OS version requested via _OSI

Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-25T23:13:35Z

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 02:42:13 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, June 17, 2013 10:37:10 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 00:31 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Hi Matthew,
> > >
> > > On Sunday, June 09, 2013 07:01:38 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > Drivers may need to make policy decisions based on the OS that the firmware
> > > > believes it's interacting with. ACPI firmware will make a series of _OSI
> > > > calls, starting from the oldest OS version they support and ending with the
> > > > most recent. Add a function to return the last successful call so that
> > > > drivers know what the firmware's expecting.
> > > >
> > > > Based on a patch by Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > Bob (CCed) would prefer us to access acpi_gbl_osi_data directly instead of
> > > adding the wrapper to ACPICA. He also thinks that the symbol definitions
> > > should go into include/acpi/actypes.h rather than into acpixf.h.
> > >
> > > Then, the only ACPICA change would be to move the symbols and we can
> > > add a Linux-specific patch on top of that adding the acpi_gbl_osi_data
> > > wrapper.
> >
> > That sounds good to me. Do you want to respin that, or should I send an
> > updated set?
>
> That one should be fine, no need to respin [1/3] and [3/3].

Any news?

Rafael