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From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: shuahkhan@gmail.com
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>,
	lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI hotplug
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:24:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334600656.20190.139.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334342089.3422.5.camel@lorien2>

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 12:34 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > I would like to explain more detail about my testing.  Unlike other ACPI
> > methods, the functionality of _OST method is not defined by the spec.
> > It is all up to the firmware implementation.  
> 
> A good reason why this patch requires more testing than on simulated
> firmware code that is based on one single firmware implementation.

Thanks Shuah for the guidance.  Do they summarize your point properly?

1. Testing a new feature on simulated / virtualized environment alone is
not sufficient.

2. Pre-enablement of a new feature is not allowed.

3. Contributing code that supports a new feature shall wait until there
are multiple firmware implementations available for the testing.

I like clear guidance, but this may be challenging for emerging
features.
-Toshi 



      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-16 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 22:21 [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-04-10 22:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: Set hotplug _OST support bit to _OSC Toshi Kani
2012-04-26 15:16   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-04-26 15:16     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-04-26 17:10     ` Toshi Kani
2012-04-27 22:05       ` Toshi Kani
2012-05-02 21:20         ` Toshi Kani
2012-04-10 22:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPI: Add acpi_evaluate_ost() for calling _OST Toshi Kani
2012-04-10 22:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI CPU hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-04-26 15:22   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-04-26 15:22     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-04-26 17:20     ` Toshi Kani
2012-04-10 22:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI memory hotplug Toshi Kani
2012-04-11 16:33 ` [PATCH 0/5] ACPI: Add _OST support for ACPI hotplug Shuah Khan
2012-04-11 18:50   ` Toshi Kani
2012-04-12 14:19     ` Shuah Khan
2012-04-13 14:24       ` Jiang Liu
2012-04-13 15:23         ` Shuah Khan
2012-04-13 16:05           ` Toshi Kani
2012-04-13 18:34             ` Shuah Khan
2012-04-16 18:24               ` Toshi Kani [this message]

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