On Friday, September 04, 2015 06:06:48 PM Marc Zyngier wrote: > IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel > requires before being able to use the device driver model. > > ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one > we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and > clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up > and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly > hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer. > > In order to allow some basic probing based on the ACPI tables, > introduce "struct acpi_probe_entry" which contains just enough > data and callbacks to match a table, an optional subtable, and > call a probe function. A driver can, at build time, register itself > and expect being called if the right entry exists in the ACPI > table. > > A acpi_probe_device_init() is provided, taking an ACPI table > identifier, and iterating over the registered entries. What about things that are provided by the ACPI namespace (eg. via _MAT) rather than in static tables? Thanks, Rafael -- 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
