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Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:45:56 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To:     Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next: PATCH 09/12] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: introduce DSA
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:22PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Describe the Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) - compliant
> MDIO devices. In ACPI world they are represented as children
> of the MDIO busses, which are responsible for their enumeration
> based on the standard _ADR fields and description in _DSD objects
> under device properties UUID [1].
> 
> [1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst | 359 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/index.rst   |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 360 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..dba76d89f4e6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/dsa.rst

Why is this document part of Linux code base ?
How will the other OSes be aware of this ?
I assume there was some repository to maintain such DSDs so that it
is accessible for other OSes. I am not agreeing or disagreeing on the
change itself, but I am concerned about this present in the kernel
code.

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Regards,
Sudeep