From: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: shuahkhan@gmail.com, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
bhelgaas@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for sysfs eject
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336668931.2581.27.camel@lorien2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336667664.16730.201.camel@misato.fc.hp.com>
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:34 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> _OST is the ACPI standard method for the platform to receive the status
> of hotplug operations. Some platforms may require the OS to support
> _OST in order to support ACPI hotplug operations. For instance, if the
> platform has the management console where user can request a hotplug
> operation from, this _OST support would be required for the management
> console to show the result of a hotplug request to user.
>
This will be a good information capture in the change log.
Thanks Toshi. It is interesting to have platforms require optional
methods. Guess you can never rule out weirdness in how these Specs.
actually get implemented :)
-- Shuah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-08 20:12 [PATCH v2 0/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] ACPI: Add CONFIG_HOTPLUG_OST option Toshi Kani
2012-05-10 16:40 ` Jiang Liu
2012-05-10 17:26 ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-10 17:43 ` Jiang Liu
2012-05-10 18:20 ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-11 0:15 ` Jiang Liu
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] ACPI: Add an interface to evaluate _OST Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for sysfs eject Toshi Kani
2012-05-09 16:46 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-09 18:16 ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-10 15:40 ` Shuah Khan
2012-05-10 16:34 ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-10 16:55 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2012-05-10 17:41 ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI CPU hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI memory hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI container hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-05-08 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] ACPI: Set hotplug _OST support bit to _OSC Toshi Kani
2012-05-09 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI hotplug Shuah Khan
2012-05-09 18:44 ` Toshi Kani
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