From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: trenn@suse.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"yakui.zhao" <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] PNP cleanups - Unify the pnp macros to access resources in the pnp resource table
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:59:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73abp8bv5b.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120151404.4332d0d4@the-village.bc.nu> (Alan Cox's message of "Tue\, 20 Nov 2007 15\:14\:04 +0000")
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> Is it actually even worth changing in the first place ? You seem to be
> complicating the code not simplyifying it, and at the end of the day
> ISAPnP is obsolete and BIOS PnP is obsoleted by ACPI
The PNP interface is used by the ACPI code to tell the various
non PCI drivers about their resources. Thomas is actually
aiming at some ACPI issues with this.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 9:51 [PATCH 2/3] PNP cleanups - Unify the pnp macros to access resources in the pnp resource table Thomas Renninger
2007-11-20 10:17 ` Rene Herman
2007-11-20 12:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-20 14:19 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-11-20 14:31 ` Rene Herman
2007-11-20 16:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-11-21 9:53 ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2007-11-27 16:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-11-27 16:52 ` Rene Herman
2007-11-20 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-20 18:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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