Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Rework acpi_bus_trim()

[Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>]

2013/01/15 6:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This series of patches changes the way acpi_bus_trim() works so that,
> eventually, it walks the namespace twice detaching (ACPI) drivers from
> device nodes being removed in the first pass and removing the device
> nodes in the second pass.
>
> The first two patches are just cleanups removing unused stuff:
>

> [1/5] Remove the ops field from struct acpi_device (unrelated to the rest).
> [2/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_device_unregister().
>
> The next three patches actually rework acpi_bus_trim() in three steps:
>
> [3/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_bus_trim() (all callers pass 1 in there
>        anyway.
> [4/5] Reimplement acpi_bus_trim() using acpi_walk_namespace().
> [3/5] Make acpi_bus_trim() carry out two passes as described above.

Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>

>
> I'm aware of the fact that this will conflict with the patches that Yinghai
> posted a few days ago, but in my opinion the changes here are prerequisite for
> the Yinghai's patchset.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
>