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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [Patch v1 3/8] ACPI / LPIT: Export lpit_read_residency_count_address()
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Rajneesh Bhardwaj
> <rajneesh.bhardwaj@intel.com> wrote:
>> From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Export lpit_read_residency_count_address(), so that it can be used from
>> drivers built as module. With the recent changes, the builtin_pci
>> functionality of the intel_pmc_core driver is removed and now it can be
>> built as a module to read this exported interface to calculate the PMC base
>> address.
>>
>
> This needs Ack from ACPI maintainer(s).
>
> Rafael, are you OK with exporting this method?

I have no particular objection at this point.