linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ACPI: kill acpi_pci_root

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Message-ID: <15022838.BvGHsiOjXu@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:53:40 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ACPI: kill acpi_pci_root_start

On Thursday 04 of October 2012 14:31:46 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> >>
> >> At last we could remove all acpi_bus_start workaround.
> >
> > Do I understand correctly that you just want to prevent acpi_pci_root_driver
> > from binding to the host bridge's struct acpi_device created while we're
> > walking the ACPI namespace?
> 
> yes, during hot add path.

Why exactly do you want to prevent that from happening?

Rafael


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