linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:58:05 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for
 IOAPIC/IOxAPIC

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:44:18AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > It is not dead.
> >
> > Platform devices are actually created by it, but they never go away.
> 
> IOW, they should never be created for anything hot-removable.
> 
> If they are, this is a bug (as you noticed).

Okay, in this case patch 2 can be omitted.

But for my understanding, platform_devices created in acpi_bus_attach()
that are not hot-removable don't take a reference to the host_bridge,
right (at least when the host-bridge is hot-removable)?

Otherwise this would be a leak again in case the host-bridge gets
removed.


	Joerg