On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:14 PM Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > The Generic Event Device (GED) is a hardware-reduced platform device. > > > > No, it is not AFAICS. > It's a little confusing, I was not sure what's the common understanding > and tried to be safe by not having non HW-reduced machines getting a > new device that they've never seen so far. I really don't expect firmware to expose GED for such machines (why would it?), but if it does so, then why not to handle it? > > The spec doesn't say that GED cannot be used on platforms that aren't > > HW-reduced > I agree. > > > and if evged.c is going to be built in unconditionally, the > > kernel will be able to handle GED regardless. > Ok, perfect then. Does that mean you're ok with the 2nd patch but are > going to drop this one? Sure, I will apply the second patch only. Thanks!
