acpi_ec_ecdt_probe => acpi_ec_identify

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 5 13:36:48 UTC 2010


On Friday 05 February 2010 1:21:22 am Nate Lawson wrote:
> 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.

Also, once the multi-pass stuff is pushed down into the acpi(4) driver, an
identify method would be the right way to do this.

-- 
John Baldwin


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