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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] soc: Add a basic ACPI generic driver
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:30:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0jbh_zU8getDO2VdsQ7qzjnwkTXjsNd+j+j=K4PPDO05w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6cc7edd-fbb9-ed7a-412e-0d75e4c8ec2b@huawei.com>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:28 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    drivers/soc/Makefile       |   1 +
> >>>>    drivers/soc/acpi_generic.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>    2 files changed, 103 insertions(+)
> >>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/soc/acpi_generic.c
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/Makefile b/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> index 8b49d782a1ab..2a59a30a22cd 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/Makefile
> >>>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> >>>>    # Makefile for the Linux Kernel SOC specific device drivers.
> >>>>    #
> >>>>
> >>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT)                += acpi_generic.o
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_ACTIONS)     += actions/
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_SOC_ASPEED)       += aspeed/
> >>>>    obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_AT91)                += atmel/
> >>>
> >>> Based on everything I've seen so far, this should go under drivers/acpi instead.
> >>
> >> soc drivers seem to live in drivers/soc (non-arm32, anyway), so I
> >> decided on this location. But drivers/acpi would also seem reasonable now.
> >
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> > Any reasons for not putting it into drivers/acpi/pptt.c specifically?
> > .
>
> I don't think so.
>
> One thing is that the code does a one-time scan of the PPTT to find all
> processor package nodes with ID structures to register the soc devices -
> so we would need some new call from from acpi_init() for that.

Or an extra initcall or similar. [Calls from acpi_init() are basically
for things that need to be strictly ordered in a specific way for some
reason.]

Why would that be a problem?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-28 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 11:14 [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add basic generic ACPI soc driver John Garry
2020-01-28 11:14 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add acpi_pptt_get_package_info() API John Garry
2020-01-28 12:34   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 14:04     ` John Garry
2020-01-28 14:54       ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-29 11:03         ` John Garry
2020-01-30 11:23     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-30 16:12       ` John Garry
2020-01-30 17:41         ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-31 10:58           ` John Garry
2020-01-28 11:14 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] soc: Add a basic ACPI generic driver John Garry
2020-01-28 11:56   ` Greg KH
2020-01-28 13:33     ` John Garry
2020-01-28 12:50   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-28 14:46     ` John Garry
2020-01-28 15:20   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 15:59     ` John Garry
2020-01-28 16:17       ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-28 17:51   ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-28 18:22     ` John Garry
2020-01-28 19:11       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-01-28 19:28         ` John Garry
2020-01-28 22:30           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2020-01-29 10:27             ` John Garry
2020-01-28 20:06       ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-29  9:58         ` John Garry
2020-01-28 16:56 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add basic generic ACPI soc driver Jeremy Linton
2020-01-28 17:28   ` John Garry
2020-01-28 19:04     ` Jeremy Linton
2020-01-28 20:07       ` John Garry

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