From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751517AbaKYULp (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:11:45 -0500 Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:51764 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750925AbaKYULn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:11:43 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Mark Brown Cc: Darren Hart , Grant Likely , Ben Zhang , alsa-devel , Liam Girdwood , Bard Liao , Oder Chiou , Anatol Pomozov , Dylan Reid , flove@realtek.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: rt5677: Add ACPI device probing Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:58 +0100 Message-ID: <2374046.oRBoy0cD3d@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-rc5+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20141125193623.GL7712@sirena.org.uk> References: <1416034608-24238-1-git-send-email-benzh@chromium.org> <5474D35A.3000601@linux.intel.com> <20141125193623.GL7712@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 07:36:23 PM Mark Brown wrote: > > --njUEgrJvs9ryr/H/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:07:06AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > > On 11/25/14 10:43, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Link from where - do we want to talk to the ACPI/UEFI forum and=20 > > > figure out some kind of fast track process for them to add an > > > "it's already covered by DT, see here" entry to their database for=20 > > > example? We also ought to work out how to make sure ACPI IDs are=20 > > > registered there as well, should be possible to have something=20 > > > simple as part of that. > > > This is a current topic with the ACPI working group. We have the > > following document: > > > http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-= > UUID.pdf > > > I don't know if we want to have a list of them here, or if a separate > > document is needed. The important point is that it is independent from > > Seems to me like some indirection is going to be better rather than > having one big document if there's widespread adoption, avoids lots of > document churn. > > > the ACPI specification itself so that it can be updated out of band > > with the specification, and not be subject to rather plodding pace > > that would imply. > > > Rafael, I've missed several of these meetings unfortunately, and I'm > > not sure if we've closed on this point. Do you know? > > OK, I'll see if any of the people at work have been following as well. > For now continuing to just document everything as DT bindings in the way > we are already seems like a sensible interim approach. Yes, that currently is the case in my view too. -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.