From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:43:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] Export ACPI _DSM provided firmware instance number Message-Id: <20110304104314.26265021@jbarnes-desktop> List-Id: References: <20110223125741.GA16473@fedora14-r610.blr.amer.dell.com> <20110302172508.GA2794@fedora14-r610.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20110302172508.GA2794@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 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:34:17 +0530 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' Applied, fingers crossed this time. :) -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center