Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:14:47 +0200 | From | Samuel Ortiz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] acpi: Fail GED probe when not on hardware-reduced |
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > The Generic Event Device (GED) is a hardware-reduced platform device. > > No, it is not AFAICS. It's a little confusing, I was not sure what's the common understanding and tried to be safe by not having non HW-reduced machines getting a new device that they've never seen so far.
> The spec doesn't say that GED cannot be used on platforms that aren't > HW-reduced I agree.
> and if evged.c is going to be built in unconditionally, the > kernel will be able to handle GED regardless. Ok, perfect then. Does that mean you're ok with the 2nd patch but are going to drop this one?
Cheers, Samuel.
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