linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v1 3/8] ACPI / LPIT: Export lpit_read_residency_count

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:09:10 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@...el.com>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vishwanath Somayaji <vishwanath.somayaji@...el.com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch v1 3/8] ACPI / LPIT: Export lpit_read_residency_count_address()

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Rajneesh Bhardwaj
> <rajneesh.bhardwaj@...el.com> wrote:
>> From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> Export lpit_read_residency_count_address(), so that it can be used from
>> drivers built as module. With the recent changes, the builtin_pci
>> functionality of the intel_pmc_core driver is removed and now it can be
>> built as a module to read this exported interface to calculate the PMC base
>> address.
>>
>
> This needs Ack from ACPI maintainer(s).
>
> Rafael, are you OK with exporting this method?

I have no particular objection at this point.