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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, "linux-acpi@vger" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git] make /proc/acpi/wakeup more useful
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:59:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413155949.GA9157@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704071308.07571.david-b@pacbell.net>

Hi!

> > Are you _sure_ you have a 1-to-1 relationship here?  No multiple devices
> > pointing to the same acpi node?  Or the other way around?  If so, you
> > are going to have to change the name to be something more unique.
> 
> I've wondered that too.  The short answer:  APCI only supports 1-1
> here.  It will emit warnings if it tries to bind more than one ACPI
...
> Assuming they all adopt that same "parallel tree" model, that seems
> like a good idea.  The tools will likely need to understand how ACPI
> and OF differ, but there's no point in reserving more names than we
> really need.  Though it may be that "parallel trees" should go away.

If mapping is indeed 1-to-1 in acpi... it would be nice to just merge
the trees.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-15  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04  0:41 [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git] make /proc/acpi/wakeup more useful David Brownell
2007-04-05  7:59 ` Zhang Rui
2007-04-05 10:58   ` David Brownell
2007-04-06  9:36     ` Zhang Rui
2007-04-06 15:43       ` David Brownell
2007-04-07  5:01         ` Greg KH
2007-04-07 20:08           ` David Brownell
2007-04-09  2:36             ` Zhang Rui
2007-04-09  5:35               ` David Brownell
2007-04-10 23:29             ` David Brownell
2007-04-11  0:10               ` David Brownell
2007-04-13 15:59             ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-04-17 19:53               ` David Brownell
2007-04-17 21:57                 ` David Brownell
2007-04-18  3:03                   ` Greg KH
2007-04-18  3:25                     ` David Brownell
2007-04-05  9:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-04-05 10:35   ` David Brownell
2007-04-25 19:22 ` Len Brown

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