Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755730AbZFCT3R (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:29:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753944AbZFCT3D (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:29:03 -0400 Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:6473 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753587AbZFCT3B (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:29:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:29:03 -0600 From: Alex Chiang To: lenb@kernel.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Dynamic ACPI-PCI binding Message-ID: <20090603192903.GA10885@ldl.fc.hp.com> References: <20090602152351.7346.48697.stgit@bob.kio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090602152351.7346.48697.stgit@bob.kio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 28 Hi Len, * Alex Chiang : > This patch series eliminates static boot-time binding of ACPI > and PCI devices, and introduces an API to perform this lookup > during runtime. > > This change has the following advantages: > > - eliminates struct acpi_device vs struct pci_dev lifetime issues > - lays groundwork for eliminating .bind/.unbind from acpi_device_ops > - lays more groundwork for eliminating .start from acpi_device_ops > and thus simplifying ACPI drivers > - whacks out a lot of code > > This patchset is based on lenb/test (66c74fa1d4). I'm going to address Bjorn's comments and respin this series. Thanks. /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/