linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Rework acpi_bus

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:38:20 +0900
From:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Rework acpi_bus_trim()

2013/01/15 6:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This series of patches changes the way acpi_bus_trim() works so that,
> eventually, it walks the namespace twice detaching (ACPI) drivers from
> device nodes being removed in the first pass and removing the device
> nodes in the second pass.
>
> The first two patches are just cleanups removing unused stuff:
>

> [1/5] Remove the ops field from struct acpi_device (unrelated to the rest).
> [2/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_device_unregister().
>
> The next three patches actually rework acpi_bus_trim() in three steps:
>
> [3/5] Drop the second argument of acpi_bus_trim() (all callers pass 1 in there
>        anyway.
> [4/5] Reimplement acpi_bus_trim() using acpi_walk_namespace().
> [3/5] Make acpi_bus_trim() carry out two passes as described above.

Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>

>
> I'm aware of the fact that this will conflict with the patches that Yinghai
> posted a few days ago, but in my opinion the changes here are prerequisite for
> the Yinghai's patchset.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
>


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