From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] PNP: Allow PNP resources to be disabled (interface)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:09:15 +0200
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On Monday, July 30, 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 09:31:53PM +0200, Witold Szczeponik wrote:
> > the aim is to select a PNP ACPI option where resources can be disabled
> > (or are not needed).  E.g., the parallel port of the 600E can be used
> > with and without IRQ lines.  The means to allow for this is to use the
> > sysfs interface to select disabled resources (just like any other 
> > resource value).  In https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/3/41, I used the 
> > following example:
> > 
> >   echo disable > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/$device/resources
> >   echo clear > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/$device/resources
> >   echo set irq disabled > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/$device/resources
> >   echo fill > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/$device/resources
> >   echo activate > /sys/bus/pnp/devices/$device/resources
> > 
> > The third line is made possible by the patch series.  All other
> > lines are already implemented.
> 
> Shouldn't this be rather "disable_irq" or something which is a single
> word and thus would simplify parsing a lot?

Or just "irq", which isn't going to be confused with anything else it seems.

Thanks,
Rafael
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