Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Make custom_method use per-open state

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 2:04 AM Marty E. Plummer <hanetzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:38 AM Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Make custom_method keep its own per-file-open state instead of global
> > > state in order to avoid race conditions[1] and other possible conflicts
> > > with other concurrent users.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20221227063335.61474-1-zh.nvgt@xxxxxxxxx/ # [1]
> > > Reported-by: Hang Zhang <zh.nvgt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  This patch addresses Hang's problems plus the ones raised by Rafael in his review (see link above).
> > >  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2667007.mvXUDI8C0e@kreacher/ was submitted but since there were still people
> > >  that wanted this feature, I took my time to write up a patch that should fix the issues.
> > >  Hopefully the linux-acpi maintainers have not decided to remove custom_method just yet.
> >
> > Well, thanks for the patch, but yes, they have.  Sorry.
>
> Honestly, I think that's a bit of a cop out. This is git. git revert exists,
> and you're crippling the abilities of quite a lot of coreboot/etc development.

Perhaps they can try to use the ACPI debugger that's in the kernel now
instead of a known-broken interface?