[PATCH 00/02] ACPI: sysfs eject support for container

From: Toshi Kani
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 18:01:19 EST


This patchset enables sysfs eject for ACPI scan drivers and
registers the ACPI container driver as an ACPI scan driver.
This patchset is the one I mentioned in my following reply.

Toshi

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / scan: Simplify container driver

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 00:47 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The only useful thing that the ACPI container driver does is to
> install system notify handlers for all container and module device
> objects it finds in the namespace. The driver structure,
> acpi_container_driver, and the data structures created by its
> .add() callback are in fact not used by the driver, so remove
> them entirely.
>
> It also makes a little sense to build that driver as a module,
> so make it non-modular and add its initialization to the
> namespace scanning code.
>
> In addition to that, make the namespace walk callback used for
> installing the notify handlers more straightforward.

I think the container driver needs to be registered as an ACPI scan
driver so that sysfs eject will continue to work for container devices,
such as ACPI0004:XX/eject. Since the container driver does not support
ACPI eject notification (and we have been discussing how system device
hot-plug should work), this sysfs eject is the only way to eject a
container device at this point. I will send an update patchset that
applies on top of this patch.
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