From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9243FC2D0DB for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CBB20707 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727308AbgA3QMY (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:12:24 -0500 Received: from lhrrgout.huawei.com ([185.176.76.210]:2332 "EHLO huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727299AbgA3QMY (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:12:24 -0500 Received: from lhreml702-cah.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.7.106]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id 8207B7581DCDBE01EE6A; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) by lhreml702-cah.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.408.0; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:22 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.202.226.43) by lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1713.5; Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add acpi_pptt_get_package_info() API To: Sudeep Holla CC: , , , , , , , , References: <1580210059-199540-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> <1580210059-199540-2-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> <20200128123415.GB36168@bogus> <20200130112338.GA54532@bogus> From: John Garry Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:12:20 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200130112338.GA54532@bogus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.202.226.43] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhreml735-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.86) To lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 30/01/2020 11:23, Sudeep Holla wrote: >> I personally would not prefer to add the support when I know it is getting >> deprecated. I am not sure on kernel community policy on the same. >> > OK, the details on the proposal to deprecate can be now found in UEFI > bugzilla [1] > Wouldn't it be a better approach to propose deprecating the field when there is a readily available alternative, i.e. not a spec from a different body in beta stage? To me, this new SMC support will take an appreciable amount of time to be implemented in FW by SiPs when actually released. And if it requires an ATF upgrade - which I guess it does - then that's a big job. Thanks, John > -- > Regards, > Sudeep > > [1]https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2492 > .