| From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] ACPICA: Add interface for getting latest OS version requested via _OSI | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:37:10 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 00:31 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > On Sunday, June 09, 2013 07:01:38 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Drivers may need to make policy decisions based on the OS that the firmware > > believes it's interacting with. ACPI firmware will make a series of _OSI > > calls, starting from the oldest OS version they support and ending with the > > most recent. Add a function to return the last successful call so that > > drivers know what the firmware's expecting. > > > > Based on a patch by Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> > > Bob (CCed) would prefer us to access acpi_gbl_osi_data directly instead of > adding the wrapper to ACPICA. He also thinks that the symbol definitions > should go into include/acpi/actypes.h rather than into acpixf.h. > > Then, the only ACPICA change would be to move the symbols and we can > add a Linux-specific patch on top of that adding the acpi_gbl_osi_data > wrapper.
That sounds good to me. Do you want to respin that, or should I send an updated set?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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