We've been wrapping up ACPI 4.0 changes. I hope to take a look at this next week. Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx] >Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:17 AM >To: Moore, Robert >Cc: Len Brown; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ACPICA: add postorder namespace walk > >On Friday 17 July 2009 11:27:16 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> AcpiWalkNamespace() only supports preorder traversal of the namespace. >> This visits a node before any of its children, so it works well for >> adding new devices. However, when removing devices, we need a postorder >> traversal so we can remove children before the parents. >> >> These patches add a new AcpiWalkNamespace2() interface that takes two >> callback arguments: one for preorder traversal and another for postorder. >> These patches don't change the behavior of AcpiWalkNamespace(). >> >> Note that the existing preorder AcpiWalkNamespace() never actually visits >> the starting node. Therefore, we skip it in postorder also. > >Hi Bob, > >Any feedback on these patches, or on the question of whether >AcpiWalkNamespace() should visit the starting node? (I expect >that the starting node question will be most easily resolved >by a documentation update.) > >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
