Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-11 Thread Al Stone
On 6/11/19 10:11 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:03:15AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: >> On 6/11/19 6:53 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:07:34PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID may be either an integer or a str

Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-11 Thread Zhang Rui
On 二, 2019-06-11 at 17:11 +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:03:15AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > > > > On 6/11/19 6:53 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:07:34PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > > > > > > > > In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID

Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-11 Thread Sudeep Holla
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:03:15AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > On 6/11/19 6:53 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:07:34PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > >> In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID may be either an > >> integer or a string object. Up until now, when defining pro

Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-11 Thread Al Stone
On 6/11/19 6:53 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:07:34PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: >> In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID may be either an >> integer or a string object. Up until now, when defining processor >> Device()s in ACPI (_HID ACPI0007), only integers were al

Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-11 Thread Sudeep Holla
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:07:34PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID may be either an > integer or a string object. Up until now, when defining processor > Device()s in ACPI (_HID ACPI0007), only integers were allowed even > though this ignored the specific

[RFC PATCH] ACPI / processors: allow a processor device _UID to be a string

2019-06-10 Thread Al Stone
In the ACPI specification, section 6.1.12, a _UID may be either an integer or a string object. Up until now, when defining processor Device()s in ACPI (_HID ACPI0007), only integers were allowed even though this ignored the specification. As a practical matter, it was not an issue. Recently, som