From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / scan: Clear match_driver flag in acpi_bus_trim()
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:59:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1390946378.1792.514.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1737561.u7lWGR6b7C@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 01:16 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Drivers should not bind to struct acpi_device objects that
> acpi_bus_trim() has been called for, so make that function
> clear flags.match_driver for those objects.
>
> If that is not done, an ACPI driver may theoretically try to operate
> a device that is not physically present.
>
> Fixes: 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device objects for all device nodes in the namespace)
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Thanks,
-Toshi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-28 22:05 UTC|newest]
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2014-01-27 0:16 Rafael J. Wysocki
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