Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI probing infrastructure

[Hanjun Guo]

On 09/08/2015 09:19 PM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Sorry for the late response for quite a while...
>
> On 09/05/2015 01:06 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel
> > requires before being able to use the device driver model.
> >
> > ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one
> > we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and
> > clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up
> > and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly
> > hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer.
> >
> > It turns out that providing such a probing infrastructure is rather
> > easy, and provides a much deserved cleanup in both the arch code, the
> > GIC driver, and the architected timer driver.
> >
> > I'm sure there is some more code to be deleted, and one can only
> > wonder why this wasn't done before the arm64 code was initially merged
> > (the diffstat says it all...).
> >
> > Patches are against v4.2, and a branch is available at
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git
> > acpi/device-probing

I pulled, and noticed that there is v2, it's cleaner than v1 for the
patch 1/5 to me :)

> Great thanks to cleanup these stuff, I will test
> this patch set and review it, will get back to you
> if I get anything.

I tested the v2 and it boots pretty happy as before, if
you post to maillist,

Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Hanjun
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