applied to acpi-test thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center On Fri, 22 May 2009, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Currently, ACPI hotplug is mostly handled in drivers. I'm working on moving > that hotplug support out of drivers and into the Linux/ACPI core. > > These patches change the Linux/ACPI notify handling to use the > acpi_handle a bit longer before looking up an acpi_device. > > System notifications often deal with device presence and status change. > In these cases, we may not have an acpi_device. For example, we may > get a Device Check notification on an object that previously was not > present. Since the object was not present, we would not have had an > acpi_device for it. > > Note: The last patch in this series depends on this previous patch > that is not upstream yet: > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/21076/ > > Comments welcome. > > --- > > Bjorn Helgaas (4): > ACPI: use handle, not device, in system notification path > ACPI: remove unused return values from Bus Check & Device Check handling > ACPI: remove unused "status_changed" return value from Check Device handling > ACPI: simplify notification debug messages > > > drivers/acpi/bus.c | 93 +++++++++++++--------------------------------------- > 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-) > > -- > Bjorn > -- > 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
