From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org, ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: acpi-ca reports \_SB as a device
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:03:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E2ED9F.1080602@root.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E3900E6@orsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
Ok, your rationale seems sound. We'll keep the workaround of skipping
such namespace system objects when scanning from the root.
-Nate
Moore, Robert wrote:
> For _SB_, this allows the _SB_._INI method to be run.
>
> For _TZ, this allows notifies on the _TZ object. Some ASL code does
> this.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate@root.org]
>>Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:05 AM
>>To: ACPI Developers
>>Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org
>>Subject: acpi-ca reports \_SB as a device
>>
>>If you call AcpiGetType on \_SB, you get "device" and \_TZ gives
>>"thermal". I don't think this is valid since these are system scopes,
>>not devices and thermal zones.
>>
>>I found this while testing a patch that scans the whole namespace (\)
>>for devices. It turns out some systems put PCI link devices (PNP0C0F)
>>in \, so we weren't probing them.
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2005-01-10 18:12 acpi-ca reports \_SB as a device Moore, Robert
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