Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:03:27 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: acpi-ca reports \_SB as a device Message-ID: <41E2ED9F.1080602@root.org> In-Reply-To: <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E3900E6@orsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E3900E6@orsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
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Ok, your rationale seems sound. We'll keep the workaround of skipping such namespace system objects when scanning from the root. -Nate Moore, Robert wrote: > For _SB_, this allows the _SB_._INI method to be run. > > For _TZ, this allows notifies on the _TZ object. Some ASL code does > this. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate@root.org] >>Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:05 AM >>To: ACPI Developers >>Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org >>Subject: acpi-ca reports \_SB as a device >> >>If you call AcpiGetType on \_SB, you get "device" and \_TZ gives >>"thermal". I don't think this is valid since these are system scopes, >>not devices and thermal zones. >> >>I found this while testing a patch that scans the whole namespace (\) >>for devices. It turns out some systems put PCI link devices (PNP0C0F) >>in \, so we weren't probing them.
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