linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/5] driver core / ACPI: Move ACPI support to core device and driver types

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	x86 list <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/5] driver core / ACPI: Move ACPI support to core
 device and driver types

> The BIOSes of currently available ia64 systems don't contain ACPI nodes whose
> IDs will match the IDs of the new devices (ie. the ones that are going to be
> added to acpi_platform_device_ids[]), so for ia64 it should be sufficient to
> test that code as is (ie. without any new devices in the system).

Ok - built cleanly on ia64.  Boots too. Just one new console message:

ACPI: bus type platform registered

that seems pretty harmless.

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>