Re: [PATCH] ACPI: emits change uevents to all physical companion devices of container's children

[joeyli <jlee@suse.com>]

Hi, 

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 02:30:18AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The caa73ea1 patch, "ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers
> > in a special way", introduced the offline callback of acpi container.
> > In the patch description, it mentions:
> >
> >     For ACPI containers that callback simply walks the list of ACPI
> >     device objects right below the container object (its children) and
> >     checks if all of their physical companion devices are offline.  If
> >     that's not the case, it returns -EBUSY and the container system
> >     devivce cannot be put offline.  Consequently, to put the container
> >     system device offline, it is necessary to put all of the physical
> >     devices depending on its ACPI companion object offline beforehand.
> >
> > Looks that it means acpi_container_offline() should walks all physical
> > companion devices of container's children and checks their offline
> > state. And, the comment in source code is "Check all of the dependent
> > devices' physical companions", which means it should checks _all_
> > physical companions.
> >
> > But, the checking code just stops at the first not-offlined physical
> > companion device of the first not-offlined child, then kernel only
> > emits KOBJ_CHANGE uevent to the one device. It doesn't really walk
> > all children's all physical companion devices and doesn't send change
> > uevent to them.
> 
> It is unclear to me from the description whether or not this is a
> practical issue.
> 
> Also there is an alternative, which is not to send KOBJ_CHANGE uevents
> to any children at all.
> 
> Why is the approach you chose better?
>

Please ignore this patch!

Thanks for your review. I'd say sorry for that I confused with
the code in acpi_scan_hot_remove() when I was sending this patch.
At that time I didn't aware that the acpi_container_offline() does
not need to send uevent to not-offline-yet devices.  

Before two weeks ago (around Apr. 5), I sent a mail to linux-acpi
for reminding to ignore this patch. I don't know why the mail got
filtered...

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee