From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Rework acpi_bus_trim() Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:38:20 +0900 Message-ID: <50F4A4FC.3070904@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <3885603.ydrrB7OEKf@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:56536 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756107Ab3AOAiy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:38:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3885603.ydrrB7OEKf@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List , Bjorn Helgaas , LKML , Toshi Kani , Yinghai Lu , Jiang Liu , Taku Izumi 2013/01/15 6:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi All, > > This series of patches changes the way acpi_bus_trim() works so that, > eventually, it walks the namespace twice detaching (ACPI) drivers from > device nodes being removed in the first pass and removing the device > nodes in the second pass. > > The first two patches are just cleanups removing unused stuff: > > [1/5] Remove the ops field from struct acpi_device (unrelated to the rest). > [2/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_device_unregister(). > > The next three patches actually rework acpi_bus_trim() in three steps: > > [3/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_bus_trim() (all callers pass 1 in there > anyway. > [4/5] Reimplement acpi_bus_trim() using acpi_walk_namespace(). > [3/5] Make acpi_bus_trim() carry out two passes as described above. Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu > > I'm aware of the fact that this will conflict with the patches that Yinghai > posted a few days ago, but in my opinion the changes here are prerequisite for > the Yinghai's patchset. > > Thanks, > Rafael > >