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

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:42:39 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 06:33:25 PM Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
> 
> No platform-device is required for IO(x)APICs, so don't even
> create them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>

If we do this, I'd prefer not to do [2/3], because we'll introduce code that
will be essentially dead then.

> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
> index b4c1a6a..03250e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c
> @@ -25,9 +25,11 @@
>  ACPI_MODULE_NAME("platform");
>  
>  static const struct acpi_device_id forbidden_id_list[] = {
> -	{"PNP0000", 0},	/* PIC */
> -	{"PNP0100", 0},	/* Timer */
> -	{"PNP0200", 0},	/* AT DMA Controller */

Why do you change the existing entries?

> +	{"PNP0000",  0},	/* PIC */
> +	{"PNP0100",  0},	/* Timer */
> +	{"PNP0200",  0},	/* AT DMA Controller */
> +	{"ACPI0009", 0},	/* IOxAPIC */
> +	{"ACPI000A", 0},	/* IOAPIC */
>  	{"", 0},
>  };
>  
> 

Thanks,
Rafael