linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] ACPI: Translate the I/O range of non-MMIO devices before scanning

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:16:15 +0100
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] ACPI: Translate the I/O range of non-MMIO devices
 before scanning

On 16/06/2017 12:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > It causes acpi_default_enumeration() to be called but it should be fine
>>>> >> > as we are dealing with platform device anyway.
>>> >>
>>> >> I do not quite understand how declaring such MFD cell above would make sure
>>> >> that the LPC probe is called before the IPMI device is enumerated...
>> >
>> > In fact it may be that it is not sufficient in this case because the
>> > ACPI core might enumerate child devices before the LPC driver even gets
>> > a chance to probe so you would need to add also scan handler to the
>> > child devices and mark them already enumerated or something like that.
> Or extend the special I2C/SPI handling to them.
>

For this, is it possible to just configure the ACPI table so we spoof 
that the LPC slave (IPI0001), is an i2c/spi slave? Could we just add a 
resource of type ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS, and common serial bus 
type i2c/spi to solve this?

This resource would/should need to be ignored for other purposes.

John

> Thanks,
> Rafael