Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] ACPI: change the way of enumerating PNPACPI/Platform devices | From | Zhang Rui <> | Date | Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:50:14 +0800 |
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On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 16:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 17:11 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > > 1. without the patch, the acpi_platform scan handler white list is > > continuously growing. > > 2. with the patch set, the PNPACPI scan handler white list will become > > smaller and smaller by > > a) remove the ids from the PNPACPI white list, for the devices > > that are never enumerated via ACPI > > b) remove the ids from the PNPACPI whilte list and convert the drivers to > > platform bus drivers, for the devices that are not PNP devices in nature. > > which will be done later. > > I agree that this is the right direction to go in. The number of acpipnp > devices that are also pnpbios or (even worse) isapnp is (a) unlikely to > increase, and (b) *very* small, and pretty much limited to superio and a > small number of sound cards on old laptops. We may come up with a better > solution for them later, but right now shifting away from requiring that > every new ACPI device driver also bump a whitelist is an improvement. > thanks for your comments, Matthew.
thanks, rui
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