On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:55 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:34 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > _OST is the ACPI standard method for the platform to receive the status > > of hotplug operations. Some platforms may require the OS to support > > _OST in order to support ACPI hotplug operations. For instance, if the > > platform has the management console where user can request a hotplug > > operation from, this _OST support would be required for the management > > console to show the result of a hotplug request to user. > > > > This will be a good information capture in the change log. Sounds good. I will add this information to patch 0/1 and 1/1. > Thanks Toshi. It is interesting to have platforms require optional > methods. Guess you can never rule out weirdness in how these Specs. > actually get implemented :) It is optional for platforms to implement it. But when some platforms start implementing it, it is necessary for the OS to support it. :) Thanks, -Toshi -- 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
