[PATCH 0/3 rev 2] Centralized parsing of ACPI device resources

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On Monday, November 12, 2012 12:51:32 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, November 03, 2012 09:46:30 AM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With ACPI 5 we can now describe how devices are connected to their bus
> > using new resources: SPISerialBus and I2CSerialBus. Also it is now possible
> > to add GPIO connections for the devices with the help of GpioIO and GpioInt
> > resources.
> > 
> > This series adds support for these new resources.
> > 
> > The series based on the ACPI 5 enumeration support patches that are available
> > on Rafael's linux-next branch:
> > 
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git linux-next	
> > 
> > Specifically patches from this thread:
> > 
> > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/31/154
> > 
> > Since these patches depend on the above patches on Rafael's linux-next branch
> > I suggest that these be merged via that branch, if there are no objections.
> > 
> > The series follows the Device Tree way so that it would be easy to add ACPI
> > support for the existing SPI and I2C drivers if one is familiar how the
> > corresponding DT support is done.
> > 
> > For GPIO we introduce a function that maps between ACPI GPIO numbers and Linux
> > ones - acpi_get_gpio().
> > 
> > SPI slave devices gets enumerated automatically if the master device has
> > master->dev.acpi_handle set (this is analogous to master->dev.of_mode). The
> > platform bus code in Rafael's branch assigns the ACPI handle to the master
> > device.
> > 
> > I2C slave devices can be enumerated by calling acpi_i2c_register_devices() in
> > the adapter driver.
> 
> Following the previous discussion, the patches below move some ACPI resources
> parsing code from drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c to a new file
> drivers/acpi/resource.c and reformat it so that it can be used by other
> subsystems (patch [1/3]), convert the new ACPI platform devices creation
> code to use the routines in drivers/acpi/resource.c instead of doing its
> own resource parsing (patch [2/3]) and make the ACPI namespace scan attach
> a list of _CRS resources to each struct acpi_device it creates, where
> applicable (patch [3/3] - the ACPI platform device code is converted to use
> that instead of executing _CRS by itself via acpi_walk_resources()).
> 
> The patchset is on top of the current linux-pm.git/linux-next branch and
> has been tested somewhat.  Please let me know if you find any problems in it.

Updated series, taking the Mika's feedback into account, follows.  There are
bug fixes in [1/3], [2/3] is unchanged and the new [3/3] is a replacement, done
in a different way because of some ACPICA limitations I didn't realize before.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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