linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 7/9] ACPI: Translate the I/O range of non-MMIO devices before scanning

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Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2018 21:44:35 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
        Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 7/9] ACPI: Translate the I/O range of non-MMIO devices
 before scanning

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:25 PM, John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/2018 13:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:32 PM, John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com> wrote:

>> resource_size_t is dynamic width type, you will see a compiler
>> warning. For this we have
>> %pap specifier.
>>
>> Moreover, in some cases it's useful to print struct resource via %pR or
>> %pr.

> I have already fixed this up in my rework.

Good!

>>>> +/* All the host devices which apply indirect-IO can be listed here. */
>>>> +static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_indirect_host_id[] = {
>>>> +       {""},
>>>> +};
>>
>>
>> The idea of terminator is to be such (remove comma there). And it's
>> basically redundant to have an empty string there. Moreover, it's a
>> waste of resources in ro section.
>
>
> OK, the comma should be removed. So what is the preferred acpi device id
> array sentinel? I see {}, {"", 0}, and {""} used.

The rule of thumb --- whatever has more entries in the kernel.
In case of similarity I would prefer simple {} because it suits for
termination slightly better (for my opinion, some cases might
potentially have {"", non_null_vakue}).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko