On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> What about /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/ and then one file per table >> under it with the same name as the table file under tables/ ? > > "data" works. ACPI table names are all upper-case, so it > can't conflict. Any programs that scan the whole directory > have to already skip "dynamic", so they likely would not > be confused by the appearance of a second directory. > > For BERT there is only one blob of data. So naming it the > same as the table is fine. Maybe other tables might have > more than one thing? If so, they could use the table name > as a prefix, or make a subdirectory. We can cross that > bridge if anyone finds additional useful things to add. Actually, there already are multiple SSDTs on the majority of systems and the corresponding files under tables/ are called SSDT1, SSDT2 etc., so we just need to follow the existing convention. 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
