On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:54:19 AM Sudeep Holla wrote: > ACPI 6.0 adds support for optional processor container device which may > contain child objects that are either processor devices or other processor > containers. This allows representing hierarchical processor topologies. > > It is declared using the _HID of ACPI0010. It is an abstract container > used to represent CPU topology and should not be used to hotplug > purposes. > > If no matching handler is found for a device in acpi_scan_attach_handler, > acpi_bus_attach does a default enumeration for those devices with valid > HID in the acpi namespace. This patch adds a scan handler for these ACPI > processor containers to avoid default that enumeration and ensures the > platform devices are not created for them. > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> Queued up for 4.6, thanks! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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