Re: [PATCH 01/12] ACPI: introduce CONFIG_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE to enable this ACPI mode

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+CC Robert Moore

On 2013-11-18 21:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 18, 2013 09:21:30 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
[...]
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  drivers/acpi/Kconfig            | 8 ++++++++
>>>>>>  include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h | 4 ++++
>>>>>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>>>>>> index 589da05..7bbd3b0 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -354,6 +354,14 @@ config ACPI_BGRT
>>>>>>         data from the firmware boot splash. It will appear under
>>>>>>         /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt/ .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +config ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE
>>>>>> +     bool "Hardware-reduced ACPI support"
>>>>>> +     depends on !(IA64 || X86)
>>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you use
>>>>>
>>>>>         depends on (ARM || ARM64)
>>>>>
>>>>> here instead?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hardware-reduced is not restricted to ARM platforms, that's why
>>>>
>>>> I used depends on !(IA64 || X86) here.
>>>
>>> So what exactly are the other platforms using ACPI in the Linux kernel?
>>>
>>
>> To telling the truth, I didn't see any other platform using ACPI except
>> IA64, X86 and ARM/ARM64, I just used depends on !(IA64 || x86) for
>> future purpose.
> 
> However, if you used "depends on ARM || ARM64" (the parens are not needed BTW),
> the subsequent patches wouldn't need to check CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ARM64 in
> addition to CONFIG_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE.  That would simplify stuff somewhat.

Yes, you are right :)
It is ok for me to use "depends on ARM || ARM64", but Robert Moore also
suggested that hardware-reduced is not restricted to ARM platforms.

Robert, any comments on this?

Thanks
Hanjun
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