On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:22PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > Describe the Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) - compliant > MDIO devices. In ACPI world they are represented as children > of the MDIO busses, which are responsible for their enumeration > based on the standard _ADR fields and description in _DSD objects > under device properties UUID [1]. > > [1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf > > Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst | 359 ++++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst | 1 + > 2 files changed, 360 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst > > diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..dba76d89f4e6 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst Why is this document part of Linux code base ? How will the other OSes be aware of this ? I assume there was some repository to maintain such DSDs so that it is accessible for other OSes. I am not agreeing or disagreeing on the change itself, but I am concerned about this present in the kernel code. -- Regards, Sudeep
