Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:08:01 +0300 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [net-next: PATCH 09/12] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: introduce DSA description |
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:37:46PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
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> MRVL0100 is pretty meaningless, but marvell,orion-mdio gives you a > much better idea what the device is. That i would say is the key of > the problem here. Without knowing what MRVL0100 means, it is hard to > guess the rest.
As I pointed out they may use _DDN which will be part of the DSDT independenly of the ACPICA version (`iasl` may add comments on the devices it knows) or any other ACPI tools. The cons of this is the unused bulk in the ACPI tables, meaning wasted space in firmware.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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