Message-ID: <1336668931.2581.27.camel@lorien2>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI: Add _OST support for sysfs eject
From: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
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To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: shuahkhan@gmail.com, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
        bhelgaas@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:31 -0600
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On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:34 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:

> _OST is the ACPI standard method for the platform to receive the status
> of hotplug operations.  Some platforms may require the OS to support
> _OST in order to support ACPI hotplug operations.  For instance, if the
> platform has the management console where user can request a hotplug
> operation from, this _OST support would be required for the management
> console to show the result of a hotplug request to user.  
> 

This will be a good information capture in the change log.

Thanks Toshi. It is interesting to have platforms require optional
methods. Guess  you can never rule out weirdness in how these Specs.
actually get implemented :)


-- Shuah

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