On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 15:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:17:13PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > Added include/linux/hotplug.h, which defines the hotplug framework > > interfaces used by the framework itself and handlers. > > No, please name this properly, _everything_ is hotpluggable these days, > and unless you want the whole kernel and all busses and devices to use > this, then it needs to be named much better than this, sorry. > > We went through this same issue over 10 years ago, please, let's learn > from our mistakes and not do it again. Agreed. I will come up with a better name to avoid the confusion. > > +/* Add Validate order values */ > > +#define HP_ACPI_BUS_ADD_VALIDATE_ORDER 0 /* must be first */ > > This is really ACPI specific, so why not just put it under include/acpi/ > instead? Yes, this needs to be revisited. For now, it is defined in the same file since it helps to manage the ordering when all values are defined in a same place. We may need the ordering values defined in each arch when this framework is used by multiple architectures. > And note, PPC and other arches probably do this already (s390?) so to > exclude them from the beginning would not be a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I will check other architectures and bring them to the discussions. -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
