Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:21:30 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] ACPI/platform: Add ACPI ID for Intel MBI device |
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:17:03PM -0800, David E. Box wrote: > This is per the requirement in Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt: > > "Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI > device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add > the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in > drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c"
Well sure, but why do you need to be a platform device at all? This functionality was intended for cases where we already have a driver for the part that enumerated it via some other mechanism. If the driver's only intended for ACPI systems then why not just be an ACPI device?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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