On Friday 22 September 2006 03:14, Zhang Rui wrote: > Make ACPI use driver model. What's happening with this series? It doesn't seem to be in -mm yet. Some of this stuff has been kicking around for a year already. It'd be nice to go forward or give up on the idea. > Patrick has posted patches on rewriting ACPI driver model in November 2005. > And recently Shaohua send me a prototype on making ACPI use driver model. > This patch series bases on both Patrick and Shaohua's previous work. > > Two features are gonna to be changed by applying this series of patches. > 1. ACPI driver model. > ACPI driver are made to follow Linux driver model. > The mainly work is to convert the registeration interfaces, so that > ACPI devices are registered with the global device tree. > Note the new .uevent method mark ACPI drivers by PNPID > instead of by name. Udev script needs to look for "HWID = " > or "COMPTID = " to load the right ACPI driver. > 2. ACPI sysfs interface. > As a result of using driver model, ACPI devices is added in the > /sys/device tree. So after _EJ0 is added as a property of > ACPI device in device tree, /sys/firm/acpi is deleted. > Note that the corresponding userspace script needs to be changed > for hot removal. > > Note that this is only the first step of ACPI sysfs convert project. > The next step is to duplicate /proc/acpi functions in /sys/device tree. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
