Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754036AbdCWLT4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:19:56 -0400 Received: from mail-ot0-f178.google.com ([74.125.82.178]:34155 "EHLO mail-ot0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751248AbdCWLTy (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:19:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170323105029.GJ8329@suse.de> References: <1490204005-2733-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> <1490204005-2733-4-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> <2232546.0OJbVJtxLm@aspire.rjw.lan> <20170322225853.GH8329@suse.de> <20170322235805.GH7266@8bytes.org> <20170323105029.GJ8329@suse.de> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:19:52 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: k8D8pFUGLCmpC48mi_cZeCXMpRo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC To: Joerg Roedel Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Joerg Roedel , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , ACPI Devel Maling List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 17 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:06:44AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> The main problem is that representing anything hot-removable as a >> platform device is inherently fragile, as the platform bus type has no >> idea whatever about things that may physically go away and platform >> drivers don't expect that devices may vanish from under them in >> general and so on. Unregistration alone doesn't help much with that, >> so IMO at least for now it's better to avoid using platform_device for >> hot-removable stuff. > > Okay, thanks for the explanation. So patch 2 could be dropped, should I > resend without that patch or do you want to pick them up from this post? I can pick them up easily enough, thanks! Take care, Rafael