linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 09/12] ACPI: introduce acpi platform exclude id list

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Message-ID: <535EBAAE.5060309@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:31:42 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
To:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bhelgaas@...gle.com, matthew.garrett@...ula.com,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 09/12] ACPI: introduce acpi platform exclude id list

On 4/28/2014 3:57 AM, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 00:21 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 12:06:56 AM Zhang Rui wrote:
>>> For ACPI PIC (PNP0000) and Timer (PNP0100) device objects, although
>>> they have _HID control method, but they should not be enumerated to
>>> platform bus, because there will never be any platform drivers for them.
>>>
>>> Thus an exclude id list is introduced in this patch to prevent
>>> those platform device nodes from being created.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
>> This should go into [6/12] as well.
>>
> I think it is okay to keep them as separate patches because they do not
> break bisect. And this patch is just a cleanup, it does not fix a real
> BUG in patch 6/12.

OK

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