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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"linda.knippers@hpe.com" <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
	"guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com" <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi, nfit: fix acpi event notifications for nfit
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:22:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471551711.6177.25.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gM8SNLGn+ATELbBoOZWqk80_XYu41z-PDTs-3ONCGLeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 12:54 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.c
> om> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 8/18/2016 3:48 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@int
> > > el.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The nfit driver had an acpi event notification handler, but it
> > > > never
> > > > would've worked because we weren't setting the
> > > > ACPI_DRIVER_ALL_NOTIFY_EVENTS flag in acpi_driver.
> > > 
> > > Let's update the changelog to be helpful for someone implementing
> > > a
> > > backport or taking this back to a -stable branch.  Something like:
> > > 
> > > Subject: acpi, nfit: fix event notifications
> > > 
> > > Commit 209851649dc4 "acpi: nfit: Add support for hot-add" added
> > > support for _FIT notifications, but it neglected to set the
> > > ACPI_DRIVER_ALL_NOTIFY_EVENTS flag that acpi_bus_notify() uses to
> > > gate
> > > notification delivery.
> > 
> > While we're at it, should we update the notifier function to
> > explicitly check
> > for event 0x80 before re-evaluating the _FIT?  I'm thinking about
> > some time
> > in the future when there might be more than one event.
> 
> Yes, good idea.

Sounds good, part of the same patch or separately?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-19  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-18 18:48 [PATCH] acpi, nfit: fix acpi event notifications for nfit Vishal Verma
2016-08-18 19:48 ` Dan Williams
2016-08-18 19:52   ` Linda Knippers
2016-08-18 19:54     ` Dan Williams
2016-08-18 20:22       ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2016-08-18 20:30         ` Dan Williams

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