acpi_ec_ecdt_probe => acpi_ec_identify

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Fri Feb 5 06:21:23 UTC 2010


Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 05/02/2010 07:53 Nate Lawson said the following:
>> I agree in concept. The ECDT-based probe method was intended to get it
>> active as early as possible, and Linux has a quirk to create a fake ECDT
>> to get an early EC on some systems that require it but don't have an ECDT.
>>
>> However, I thought jhb@'s multi-pass probe work would be a better way to
>> support this than moving it into device_identify(). Is that code ready
>> to use yet?
> 
> I agree with this.  But, unfortunately, the code doesn't seem to be as ready as
> everyone would love it to be.

Ok, then identify() is fine too.

-- 
Nate



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