From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: obtaining acpi details outside of drivers/acpi Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:17:44 +0400 Message-ID: <46E00C08.4030200@gmail.com> References: <1189073769.7969.32.camel@localhost> <200709060743.42060.lenb@kernel.org> <1189079221.7969.40.camel@localhost> <200709060922.50337.lenb@kernel.org> <1189086833.7969.58.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:55464 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752368AbXIFORx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:17:53 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so160248ugc for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:17:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1189086833.7969.58.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Hourihane Cc: Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 09:22 -0400, Len Brown wrote: >> On Thursday 06 September 2007 07:47, Alan Hourihane wrote: >> >>> Mmm. It seems acpi_video_bus_check() is static and therefore not >>> available outside of video.c >>> >>>> BTW. I'm curious what you are trying to do. >>>> There is actually quite a bit of movement in this code right now. >>> Think about fbdev drivers (or some video driver).... Rather than >>> bang on the hardware to try and do auto-detection of devices, it's much >>> easier (and sometimes required) to just ask the system BIOS via ACPI to >>> see what devices are available. >>> >>> I want to parse _DOD myself to see what's available in kernel space. >> It would be good to have this code in only one place >> and export it from there to other parts of the kernel that need it. >> I'd like to be able to not have fbdev drivers depend on the acpi video driver, >> so perhaps we could have some generic interface where fbdev is the consumer >> and in this case acpi/video.c is the provider? > > That sounds good. I'm open to suggestions on interface. > > But is there anything better available now to scan the namespace in > current released kernels for _DOD ? 2.6.23-rc5 has it... > > Alan. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >