From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 13:36:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C781065694 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C362F8FC18 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7627B46B38; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:36:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 931958A021; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:36:46 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Lawson Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:23:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20100120; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <4B6B4A3C.5090308@icyb.net.ua> <4B6BB7AF.3040205@icyb.net.ua> <4B6BB8E2.6080204@root.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6BB8E2.6080204@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002050823.36322.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:36:46 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: acpi_ec_ecdt_probe => acpi_ec_identify X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:36:48 -0000 On Friday 05 February 2010 1:21:22 am Nate Lawson wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 05/02/2010 07:53 Nate Lawson said the following: > >> I agree in concept. The ECDT-based probe method was intended to get it > >> active as early as possible, and Linux has a quirk to create a fake ECDT > >> to get an early EC on some systems that require it but don't have an ECDT. > >> > >> However, I thought jhb@'s multi-pass probe work would be a better way to > >> support this than moving it into device_identify(). Is that code ready > >> to use yet? > > > > I agree with this. But, unfortunately, the code doesn't seem to be as ready as > > everyone would love it to be. > > Ok, then identify() is fine too. Also, once the multi-pass stuff is pushed down into the acpi(4) driver, an identify method would be the right way to do this. -- John Baldwin