Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 19:58:22 EST


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:44:18AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It is not dead.
> >
> > Platform devices are actually created by it, but they never go away.
>
> IOW, they should never be created for anything hot-removable.
>
> If they are, this is a bug (as you noticed).

Okay, in this case patch 2 can be omitted.

But for my understanding, platform_devices created in acpi_bus_attach()
that are not hot-removable don't take a reference to the host_bridge,
right (at least when the host-bridge is hot-removable)?

Otherwise this would be a leak again in case the host-bridge gets
removed.


Joerg