Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] ACPI / processor : add support for ACPI0010 processor container | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:10:10 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, December 02, 2015 02:10:42 PM Sudeep Holla wrote: > ACPI 6.0 adds support for optional processor container device which may > contain child objects that are either processor devices or other processor > containers. This allows representing hierarchical processor topologies. > > It is declared using the _HID of ACPI0010. It is an abstract container > used to represent CPU topology and should not be used to hotplug > purposes. > > This patch enables the support for these ACPI processor containers and > ensures the generic container/module devices are not created for them.
I wouldn't say that it "enables the support". What it actually does is to prevent platform devices from being created for processor container objects.
I can apply it right away with this changelog modification, though.
Thanks, Rafael
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