From: Salil Mehta <salil.me...@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:44:48 +0800
> This patch is meant to add support of ACPI to the Hisilicon RoCE driver. > Following changes have been made in the driver(s): > > Patch 1/2: HNS Ethernet Driver: changes to support ACPI have been done in > the RoCE reset function part of the HNS ethernet driver. Earlier it only > supported DT/syscon. > > Patch 2/2. HNS RoCE driver: changes done in RoCE driver are meant to detect > the type and then either use DT specific or ACPI spcific functions. Where > ever possible, this patch tries to make use of "Unified Device Property > Interface" APIs to support both DT and ACPI through single interface. > > NOTE 1: ACPI changes done in both of the drivers depend upon the ACPI Table > (DSDT and IORT tables) changes part of UEFI/BIOS. These changes are NOT > part of this patch-set. > NOTE 2: Reset function in Patch 1/2 depends upon the reset function added in > ACPI tables(basically DSDT table) part of the UEFI/BIOS. Again, this > change is NOT reflected in this patch-set. I can't apply this series to my tree because the hns infiniband driver doesn't exist in it.
