linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] soc: Add a basic ACPI generic driver

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0jbh_zU8getDO2VdsQ7qzjnwkTXjsNd+j+j=K4PPDO05w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:30:48 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] soc: Add a basic ACPI generic driver

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:28 PM John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    drivers/soc/Makefile       |   1 +
> >>>>    drivers/soc/acpi_generic.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>    2 files changed, 103 insertions(+)
> >>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/soc/acpi_generic.c
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/Makefile b/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> index 8b49d782a1ab..2a59a30a22cd 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> >>>>    # Makefile for the Linux Kernel SOC specific device drivers.
> >>>>    #
> >>>>
> >>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT)                += acpi_generic.o
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_ACTIONS)     += actions/
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_SOC_ASPEED)       += aspeed/
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_AT91)                += atmel/
> >>>
> >>> Based on everything I've seen so far, this should go under drivers/acpi instead.
> >>
> >> soc drivers seem to live in drivers/soc (non-arm32, anyway), so I
> >> decided on this location. But drivers/acpi would also seem reasonable now.
> >
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> > Any reasons for not putting it into drivers/acpi/pptt.c specifically?
> > .
>
> I don't think so.
>
> One thing is that the code does a one-time scan of the PPTT to find all
> processor package nodes with ID structures to register the soc devices -
> so we would need some new call from from acpi_init() for that.

Or an extra initcall or similar. [Calls from acpi_init() are basically
for things that need to be strictly ordered in a specific way for some
reason.]

Why would that be a problem?