Re: [PATCH V7 08/11] ACPI: always register memory hotplug scan handler even if CONFIG_X86_INTEL_LPSS is cleared

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon May 26 2014 - 08:59:10 EST


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:40:58PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, May 26, 2014 02:52:35 PM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 01:53:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > I'm wondering whether it is worth the ugliness to get platform bus
> > > > enumeration the default?
> > > >
> > > > Since you already have the PNP whitelist, can't we just use that for PNP
> > > > and keep these files as they are? In other words, don't make any kind of
> > > > physical device by default and let the scan handlers to decide.
> > >
> > > Well, that's tempting, but then we'd get one more whitelist pretty much without
> > > any benefit, because we'd be still going to have the list in acpi_platform.c.
> > >
> > > The purpose of the whole exercise is not to prevent PNP devices from being
> > > created by default (which admittedly is a nice side effect), but to get rid
> > > of the white list in acpi_platform.c - and in particular, to avoid the
> > > necessity to add every ACPI-enumerated platform device to that list in the
> > > future.
> >
> > Yes, I understand but that list currently has only 5 entries. Are
> > we expecting to have much more entries there in the future?
>
> Yes, we are. Pretty much anything that's DT-enumerable today may be
> ACPI-enumerable in the future. But you should know that. ;-)

OK. Then I guess having platform enumeration the default makes sense and
we just need to live with the ugly #ifdefs in acpi_lpss.c.
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