[PATCH v2 0/8] ACPI: make every acpi_device have a HID

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This series was prompted by an issue we saw recently in the mm tree:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/422

Synopsis:

    Linux/ACPI discovered a video device.  The device had no _HID or _CID
    methods, but based on acpi_is_video_device(), we added a sythetic CID
    ("LNXVIDEO"), so the device ended up with a CID but no HID.

    We bound the acpi_video_bus (drivers/acpi/video.c) driver to the device
    based on the CID.  This driver has a .notify() method, so we tried to
    install a notify handler on the device.  This uses strcmp() on the
    device HID to determine whether it's a fixed hardware device, and this
    oopsed because this device had no HID.

    This used to work because the HID was stored in an array that was
    initialized to zeroes, but a recent change replaced this with a pointer
    that is NULL until a HID is set.

This thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=124959955813409&w=2
has patches that work around this by basically returning a pointer to an
empty string rather than a NULL pointer in this case.

However, the HID is a pretty central part of an acpi_device, and I think it
complicates the driver model too much to deal with HIDs that might be empty
strings.  I think it's better for Linux/ACPI to just make sure that *every*
acpi_device has at least one ID (either a HID, a CID, or a synthetic ID).

The main place this default "device" ID appears is with ACPI devices that
just have _ADR methods, e.g., PCI slots.

Original posting: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=125113191017124&w=2

Changes from initial post to v2:
    - Applies on acpi-test (on top of "ACPI: cleanups for hotplug",
      http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=125175792329288&w=2).
    - Removed memory leak fix (folded into v2 of series that introduced it).

---

Bjorn Helgaas (8):
      ACPI: fix synthetic HID for \_SB_
      ACPI: use acpi_device_hid() when possible
      ACPI: make sure every acpi_device has an ID
      ACPI: maintain a single list of _HID and _CID IDs
      ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.compatible_ids
      ACPI: remove acpi_device.flags.hardware_id
      ACPI: remove acpi_device_uid() and related stuff
      ACPI: simplify building device HID/CID list


 drivers/acpi/scan.c        |  279 +++++++++++++-------------------------------
 drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c |   21 +--
 include/acpi/acpi_bus.h    |   16 +--
 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)

-- 
Bjorn
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