linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] ACPI / scan: Remove useless #ifndef and simplify container driver

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Message-ID: <1435179.fU91E9qMVO@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:41:21 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Cc:	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ACPI / scan: Remove useless #ifndef and simplify container driver

On Friday, February 08, 2013 08:59:44 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, February 08, 2013 09:57:18 AM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 01:24 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 04, 2013 12:47:31 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > > > 
> > > > The only useful thing that the ACPI container driver does is to
> > > > install system notify handlers for all container and module device
> > > > objects it finds in the namespace.  The driver structure,
> > > > acpi_container_driver, and the data structures created by its
> > > > .add() callback are in fact not used by the driver, so remove
> > > > them entirely.
> > > > 
> > > > It also makes a little sense to build that driver as a module,
> > > > so make it non-modular and add its initialization to the
> > > > namespace scanning code.
> > > > 
> > > > In addition to that, make the namespace walk callback used for
> > > > installing the notify handlers more straightforward.
> > > 
> > > As pointed out by Toshi Kani, the above changes would make acpi_eject_store()
> > > fail for containers and it is the only way to eject them currently, so patch
> > > [2/2] is an improved version of this (with Toshi's changes folded in).
> > > 
> > > Patch [1/2] is just a cleanup removing a useless #ifndef from acpi_eject_store().
> > 
> > Thanks for the update!  They look good.  For the series:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
> > Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
> > 
> > BTW, did you intentionally keep the struct acpi_container definition in
> > <acpi/container.h>?  I deleted that one in my patch.
> 
> No, I overlooked that part.  I'll apply that part of your patch as a separate
> patch on top of this one.

Actually, I prefer to remove container.h entirely.  I'll post a patch for that
shortly.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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