On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:17:03PM -0800, David E. Box wrote: > This is per the requirement in Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt: > > "Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI > device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add > the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in > drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c"
Well sure, but why do you need to be a platform device at all? This functionality was intended for cases where we already have a driver for the part that enumerated it via some other mechanism. If the driver's only intended for ACPI systems then why not just be an ACPI device? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
