From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:38:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] Export ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number Message-Id: <20110304103852.1bff3753@jbarnes-desktop> List-Id: References: <20110223125741.GA16473@fedora14-r610.blr.amer.dell.com> <20110302172508.GA2794@fedora14-r610.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> <20110304164957.GA2913@fedora14-r610.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20110304164957.GA2913@fedora14-r610.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Narendra_K@Dell.com Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mjg@redhat.com, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Shyam_Iyer@Dell.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:28:59 -0800 wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:34:17PM +0530, K, Narendra wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 06:06:42PM +0530, K, Narendra wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > This patch exports ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number and > > > string name to sysfs. > > > > > > V1 -> V2: > > > The attribute 'index' is changed to 'acpi_index' as the semantics of > > > SMBIOS provided device type instance and ACPI _DSM provided firmware > > > instance number are different. > > > > > > V2 -> V3: > > > Matthew Garrett pointed out that 'sysfs_create_groups' does return an > > > error when there are no ACPI _DSM attributes available and because of > > > that the fallback to SMBIOS will not happen. As a result SMBIOS provided > > > attributes are not created. This version of the patch addresses the issue. > > > > > > > V3 -> V4: > > Select NLS if (DMI || ACPI) in drivers/pci/Kconfig to prevent build > > breakage from an 'allmodconfig' > > > > Matthew, > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > > From: Narendra K > > Subject: [PATCH] Export ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number and string to sysfs > > > > Hi Jesse, > > Does Version 4 of the patch look good for inclusion ? Please let us know > if there are any concerns. Oh sorry, I was looking in the wrong mailbox, I'll pull this one in now. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center