Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] acpi: utils: Add function to fetch dependent acpi_devices

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:34:23AM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> In some ACPI tables we encounter, devices use the _DEP method to assert
> a dependence on other ACPI devices as opposed to the OpRegions that the
> specification intends. We need to be able to find those devices "from"
> the dependee, so add a function to parse all ACPI Devices and check if
> the include the handle of the dependee device in their _DEP buffer.

Fix prefix to be "ACPI / utils: " and rebase on top of function name changes as
suggested by Laurent.

...

> +/**
> + * acpi_dev_get_next_dep_dev - Return next ACPI device dependent on input dev

Are you expecting some kind of for_each_*() macro to be added and used?
Otherwise there is probably no need to have it "_next_" in the name as it will
be a bit confusing.

> + * @adev: Pointer to the dependee device
> + * @prev: Pointer to the previous dependent device (or NULL for first match)
> + *
> + * Return the next ACPI device which declares itself dependent on @adev in
> + * the _DEP buffer.
> + *
> + * The caller is responsible to call put_device() on the returned device.
> + */

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





[Index of Archives]     [Linux IBM ACPI]     [Linux Power Management]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Laptop]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux