From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934227AbcBQLzA (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:55:00 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:60083 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932252AbcBQLy6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:54:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] ACPI / processor : add support for ACPI0010 processor container To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" References: <1449065446-26115-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <1449065446-26115-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <1911447.Jqz0QvxEGY@vostro.rjw.lan> Cc: Sudeep Holla , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Al Stone , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Mahesh Sivasubramanian , Ashwin Chaugule , Prashanth Prakash From: Sudeep Holla Organization: ARM Message-ID: <56C45F8E.3060608@arm.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:54:54 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1911447.Jqz0QvxEGY@vostro.rjw.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 16/02/16 20:10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, December 02, 2015 02:10:42 PM Sudeep Holla wrote: >> ACPI 6.0 adds support for optional processor container device which may >> contain child objects that are either processor devices or other processor >> containers. This allows representing hierarchical processor topologies. >> >> It is declared using the _HID of ACPI0010. It is an abstract container >> used to represent CPU topology and should not be used to hotplug >> purposes. >> >> This patch enables the support for these ACPI processor containers and >> ensures the generic container/module devices are not created for them. > > I wouldn't say that it "enables the support". What it actually does is > to prevent platform devices from being created for processor container > objects. > > I can apply it right away with this changelog modification, though. > Ah my mistake, didn't change the log message from first version. Will post the patch with update log, you can change it further if required. -- Regards, Sudeep