On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:31:00 PM Ankitprasad Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 15:51 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:46:46 AM ankitprasad.r.sharma@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Ankitprasad Sharma <ankitprasad.r.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Some modules, like i915.ko, needs to detect when certain ACPI features
> > > are active inorder to prevent corruption on contended resources.
> > > In particular, use of BIOS RapidStart Technology may corrupt the contents
> > > of the reserved graphics memory, due to unalarmed hibernation. In which
> > > case i915.ko cannot assume that it (reserved gfx memory) remains
> > > unmodified and must recreate teh contents and importantly not use it to
> > > store unrecoverable user data.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ankitprasad Sharma <ankitprasad.r.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > > drivers/acpi/bus.c | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> > > index a212cef..69509c7 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> > > @@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ struct bus_type acpi_bus_type = {
> > > .remove = acpi_device_remove,
> > > .uevent = acpi_device_uevent,
> > > };
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_bus_type);
> > >
> > > /* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Initialization/Cleanup
> > >
> >
> > No.
> >
> > I see no reason whatsoever for doing this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Can you please help me with, how to detect the presence of a certain
> acpi device using its id (for example, INT3392 for Intel RST device)?
If you want to check if the device ir present at all, you cen use
acpi_device_is_present() introduced recently (although that would need
to be exported if you want to use it from a driver).
> As you might have seen (in the next patch in this series), that we use
> this symbol (acpi_bus_type) to iterate over all the devices registered
> on acpi bus, to check if there is a device with id INT3392 present or
> not.
Please don't do that this way.
I'll have a look at the other patch later.
Thanks,
Rafael
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