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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI probing infrastructure
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    Hi Marc,

    On 04.09.2015 19:06, Marc Zyngier wrote:
    > IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel
    > requires before being able to use the device driver model.
    >
    > ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one
    > we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and
    > clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up
    > and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly
    > hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer.
    >
    > It turns out that providing such a probing infrastructure is rather
    > easy, and provides a much deserved cleanup in both the arch code, the
    > GIC driver, and the architected timer driver.
    >
    > I'm sure there is some more code to be deleted, and one can only
    > wonder why this wasn't done before the arm64 code was initially merged
    > (the diffstat says it all...).
    >
    > Patches are against v4.2, and a branch is available at
    >
    > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git acpi/device-probing
    >
    > Marc Zyngier (5):
    > acpi: Add basic device probing infrastructure
    > irqchip/acpi: Add probing infrastructure for ACPI-based irqchips
    > irqchip/gic: Convert the GIC driver to ACPI probing
    > clocksource/acpi: Add probing infrastructure for ACPI-based
    > clocksources
    > clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Convert to ACPI probing
    >
    > arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 1 -
    > arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h | 13 -------
    > arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 25 -------------
    > arch/arm64/kernel/time.c | 6 ----
    > drivers/acpi/scan.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
    > drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 10 +-----
    > drivers/clocksource/clksrc-of.c | 4 +++
    > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
    > drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c | 5 ++-
    > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 11 ++++++
    > include/linux/acpi.h | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    > include/linux/acpi_irq.h | 10 ------
    > include/linux/clocksource.h | 6 ----
    > include/linux/irqchip.h | 16 +++++++++
    > include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-acpi.h | 31 ----------------
    > 15 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)
    > delete mode 100644 include/linux/acpi_irq.h
    > delete mode 100644 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-acpi.h
    >

    Thanks for cleaning this up!

    For the whole series:
    Acked-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com>


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