Bjorn Helgaas emitted: > I disagree that this requirement was lost.... Sorry, my words did not convey my intended meaning, which was that "conformance" or "coherence" was lost, with SPMI also being listed in ACPI general namespace. You actually stated this with greater clarity: > There may be firmware that has an SPMI but neglects to put the device > in the namespace. That may be the case on some legacy servers. Rocky -- 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