Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:19:45 +0800 | From | Hanjun Guo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI probing infrastructure |
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Hi Marc,
Sorry for the late response for quite a while...
On 09/05/2015 01:06 AM, 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
Great thanks to cleanup these stuff, I will test this patch set and review it, will get back to you if I get anything.
Thanks Hanjun
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