Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI / platform: Use struct acpi_scan_handler for creating devices

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 09:35:32 AM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:01:14PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Currently, the ACPI namespace scanning code creates platform device
> > objects for ACPI device nodes whose IDs match the contents of the
> > acpi_platform_device_ids[] table.  However, this adds a superfluous
> > special case into acpi_bus_device_attach() and makes it more
> > difficult to follow than it has to be.  It also will make it more
> > difficult to implement removal code for those platform device objects
> > in the future.
> > 
> > For the above reasons, introduce a struct acpi_scan_handler object
> > for creating platform devices and move the code related to that from
> > acpi_bus_device_attach() to the .attach() callback of that object.
> > Also move the acpi_platform_device_ids[] table to acpi_platform.c.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I've tested this with Haswell machine and once you fix the problem pointed
> out by Yasuaki Ishimat (returning always when ACPI_PLATFORM_CLK is set)

Well, yeah.  Fixed now.

> the platform device creation works well. This is a nice cleanup and localizes
> the hard coded platform device table in one file making maintenance bit
> easier.
> 
> Feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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