On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 07:36:23 PM Mark Brown wrote: > > --njUEgrJvs9ryr/H/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:07:06AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > > On 11/25/14 10:43, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Link from where - do we want to talk to the ACPI/UEFI forum and=20 > > > figure out some kind of fast track process for them to add an > > > "it's already covered by DT, see here" entry to their database for=20 > > > example? We also ought to work out how to make sure ACPI IDs are=20 > > > registered there as well, should be possible to have something=20 > > > simple as part of that. > > > This is a current topic with the ACPI working group. We have the > > following document: > > > http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-= > UUID.pdf > > > I don't know if we want to have a list of them here, or if a separate > > document is needed. The important point is that it is independent from > > Seems to me like some indirection is going to be better rather than > having one big document if there's widespread adoption, avoids lots of > document churn. > > > the ACPI specification itself so that it can be updated out of band > > with the specification, and not be subject to rather plodding pace > > that would imply. > > > Rafael, I've missed several of these meetings unfortunately, and I'm > > not sure if we've closed on this point. Do you know? > > OK, I'll see if any of the people at work have been following as well. > For now continuing to just document everything as DT bindings in the way > we are already seems like a sensible interim approach.
Yes, that currently is the case in my view too. -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
