Re: [PATCH 3/5] ACPI: Bind implicit GPE dependencies to PCI devices

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, October 04, 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Several platforms provide GPE information about devices in ACPI, but provide
> no ACPI methods to handle these at runtime. Provide a default handler for
> this case and bind it to PCI devices as they're discovered in ACPI space.
> Keep the methods associated in case they have side effects.

I think I'd prefer it if ACPICA maintained a list of devices to Notify() if
the given GPE triggers.  That would require us to redefine
acpi_gpe_can_wake() a bit, but that should be generally more
efficient.

Thanks,
Rafael
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