Re: [PATCH 5/7] ACPI: scan: Add support for deferring adding devices to the second scan phase based on the _DEP list

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:31 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 11/23/20 1:17 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 9:31 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> The current solution, of deferring adding of some devices because they
> >> need access during the OpRegions of other devices while they are added,
> >> is not very generic.
> >>
> >> And support for making the decision to defer adding a device based on
> >> its _DEP list, instead of the device's HID being in a fixed list of HIDs
> >> to defer, which should be a more generic way to deal with this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for working on this!
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > I'll have a more thorough look at the series later this week, stay tuned.
>
> Ok.
>
> >> Since this is likely to cause issues on some hardware, this new method will
> >> only be used if the new acpi.defer_scan_based_on_dep kernel commandline
> >> option is set to 1.
> >
> > However, I already can say that I don't like the new command line option.
>
> You don't like the name, or you don't like having a commandline option for this?

The latter.

> Anyways I'll wait till you have taken a closer look.

OK, thanks!




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