Re: [PATCH 06/12] ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function

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Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Zhang Rui wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:03 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>     
>>> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> acpi_bus_generate_event() takes two strings out of passed device object.
>>> SBS needs to supply these strings directly.
>>>
>>>       
>> This doesn't make sense.
>>     
How much sense in sending different bus_id from the same device?
>> acpi_dev->dev.bus_id is the name we are using for ACPI device in sysfs.
>> That's why acpi_dev->dev.bus_id is exported via netlink message rather
>> than the acpi_dev.pnp.bus_id.
>> BTW: what's wrong with the old acpi_sbs_generate_event thing?
>>     
> There are up to 5 devices in SBS which could send a message.
> From ACPI point of view this is one device.
> Copying strings before and after sending event seems to be mess to me.

Regards,
Alex.

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