Re: [PATCH v16 0/9] LPC: legacy ISA I/O support

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

 



On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:22 PM, John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Based on this patch-set, all the I/O accesses to Hip06/Hip07 LPC
>>>>> peripherals can
>>>>> be supported without any changes on the existing ipmi-si driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> The whole patchset has been tested on Hip07 D05 board both using DTB
>>>>> and ACPI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> V15 thread here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/26/584
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for an update.
>>>> Though I answered to previous thread.
>>>>
>>>> Summary: I'm fine with the series as long as maintainers are fine
>>>> (Rafael et al.). On personal side I think that the handler approach is
>>>> better. Details are in v15 thread.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your input and continued support. As I mentioned in reply in
>>> v15,
>>> the handler support would (or has) faced issues. And Rafael seems fine
>>> with
>>> deferring the probe to the LLDD in Patch #7/9
>>
>>
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
>> Well, the only sort-of concern is that these devices may not be
>> "serial bus slaves" in general, so the naming is slightly confusing.
>>
>
> Right, the name.
>
> The key point is that we model the bus the same as other serial buses like
> I2C or SPI, so require the same treatment from the ACPI scan.
>
> Would you prefer acpi_is_serial_bus_slave() and
> acpi_device_flags.serial_bus_slave symbols be modified also?

Yeah, preferably.

You can rename them to acpi_device_enumeration_by_parent() and
acpi_device_flags.enumeration_by_parent, respectively, as far as I'm
concerned.

At least the names would match the purpose then. :-)

And please update the comment in acpi_default_enumeration() while at it.



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Newbies]     [x86 Platform Driver]     [Netdev]     [Linux Wireless]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux Filesystems]     [Yosemite Discussion]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux