From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
arnd@arndb.de, graeme.gregory@linaro.org, helgaas@kernel.org,
linuxarm@huawei.com, z.liuxinliang@hisilicon.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ACPI / PNP: Don't add "enumeration_by_parent" devices
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:52:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180420135222.GY2173@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27c3f84e-4d53-4b6b-7382-04908082ed01@huawei.com>
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 02:24:18PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> Hi Mika,
>
> On 20/04/2018 14:07, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 06:07:25PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> > > + } else {
> > > + device->driver_data = dev;
> >
> > I think this deserves a comment explaining why we (ab)use driver_data
> > like this.
>
> Sure, could add. I didn't see any other way for the acpi_device structure to
> reference the derived PNP device.
>
> TBH, This overall approach is not good since we are creating the PNP device
> in the scan, and then leaving the device in limbo, waiting for the parent to
> add it, if at all. There's no rule for this.
>
> So I'm looking for ideas on how to improve this.
One idea is to make pnpacpi_add_device() available outside of PNP and
call it directly (or some variation) in hisi_lpc.c when it walks over
its children.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-20 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-20 10:07 [RFC PATCH 0/2] HISI LPC: Add PNP device support John Garry
2018-04-20 10:07 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] ACPI / PNP: Don't add "enumeration_by_parent" devices John Garry
2018-04-20 13:07 ` Mika Westerberg
2018-04-20 13:24 ` John Garry
2018-04-20 13:52 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2018-04-20 14:09 ` John Garry
2018-04-26 13:49 ` John Garry
2018-04-26 14:08 ` Mika Westerberg
2018-04-26 14:23 ` John Garry
2018-04-26 14:40 ` Mika Westerberg
2018-04-27 9:17 ` John Garry
2018-04-30 5:36 ` Lee Jones
2018-04-30 9:00 ` John Garry
2018-04-30 9:26 ` Lee Jones
2018-04-30 9:35 ` John Garry
2018-04-30 10:46 ` Lee Jones
2018-04-30 10:57 ` John Garry
2018-04-20 10:07 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] HISI LPC: Add PNP device support John Garry
2018-04-20 12:50 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-20 13:09 ` John Garry
2018-04-20 13:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-20 13:32 ` John Garry
2018-04-20 13:12 ` Mika Westerberg
2018-04-20 13:36 ` John Garry
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