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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
	gregkh@suse.de, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org,
	matthew@wil.cx, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:44:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114174401.GA4265@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113202632.GA3227@kroah.com>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:26:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> Doesn't /sys/firmware/acpi give you raw access to the correct tables
> already?
> 
> And isn't there some other tool that dumps the raw ACPI tables?  I
> thought the acpi developers used it all the time when debugging things
> with users.

Dumping raw ACPI tables isn't adequate - _SUN might be a complex ACPI 
method with multiple reads and writes to raw hardware, and we really 
don't want to do that in userspace. The only way to do this reliably is 
in the kernel.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  0:08 [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] Remove path attribute from sgi_hotplug Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 19:48   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 19:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 12:39   ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Rolf Eike Beer
2007-11-14 14:17     ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 14:49       ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-11-14 15:01         ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:14 ` [PATCH 3/5, RFC] Introduce pci_slot Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 19:56   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 20:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13  0:17 ` [PATCH 4/5, RFC] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:18   ` [PATCH 5/5] Add pci_slot_add_hotplug() interface Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 17:01 ` [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Greg KH
2007-11-13 18:33   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 18:51     ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 20:11       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 20:19         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:08         ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14  1:37           ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-15  0:40             ` Gary Hade
2007-11-15 17:36               ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-15 23:38                 ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14 14:42           ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 18:13             ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14 18:36               ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 20:36       ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:30         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 22:01           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-11-13 22:16             ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 21:15       ` Matt Domsch
2007-11-13 21:31         ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:36           ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:14             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:32         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 20:21   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 20:26     ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 22:51       ` Rick Jones
2007-11-13 22:56         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:04           ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 23:07             ` Greg KH
2007-11-14  6:00               ` Scott Murray
2007-11-13 23:33             ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-14  0:10               ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14  9:55                 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-11-14 18:38                   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-13 22:59       ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-14 17:37         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-11-14 17:53           ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 19:53             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 21:24             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 21:42             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 22:00               ` Greg KH
2007-11-15 20:20                 ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 17:44       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-11-14 17:51         ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 18:03           ` Matthew Garrett
2007-11-13 20:24   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 20:59     ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:41       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 21:58         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14  1:07   ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 14:17     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 14:35       ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 15:00         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 15:08           ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 15:12             ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 15:20             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 11:43 ` Kenji Kaneshige

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