On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:19:35PM +0000, Wan, Vincent wrote:
> > > + ivrs_acpihid    [HW,X86_64]
> > > +                 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
> > > +                 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
> > > +                 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
> > > +                 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
> > > +                         ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
> > 
> > What is that parameter needed for? Can't you deduce the mapping from the
> > hardware?
> 
> It is very like ivrs_ioapic/ ivrs_hpet, which can override the dedicated BDF 
> id mapped to HID:UID that was reported from BIOS's IVHD entry.
> If BIOS did not report a right BDF, we can resort to this parameter to 
> correct it.

Please add a verbose, human-readable explanation to the text so that
people know what it is for. The text above is hard to parse even for
insiders.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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