linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rev.2 1/6] ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects from probing ACPI drivers

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:48:16 -0700
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing0307@...il.com>,
	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rev.2 1/6] ACPI: Separate adding ACPI device objects
 from probing ACPI drivers

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 10:59 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 02:48 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > So, I would propose the following changes.
> >
> >  - Move the acpi_hot_add_bind() call back to the original place after
> > the device_attach() call.
> >  - Rename the name of acpi_hot_add_bind() to something like
> > acpi_bind_adr_device() since it is no longer hot-add only (and is
> > specific to _ADR devices).
> >  - Create its pair function, acpi_unbind_adr_device(), which is called
> > from acpi_bus_remove().  When a constructor interface is introduced, its
> > destructor should be introduced as well.
> >  - Remove the binding procedure from acpi_pci_root_add().  This should
> > be done in patch [2/6].
> 
> i think we should put jiang four patches before Rafael's patches.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-pci-jiang-hotplug

Thanks for the pointer!  Oh, I did not know that pci_dev gets removed
before acpi_bus_trim() is called...  I looked at Jiang's last two
patches for the bind update, and they look good to me.  

Thanks,
-Toshi

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