[PATCH V7 5/7] ACPI: Delay the enumeration on the devices whose dependency has not met

[Gabriele Paoloni]

Hi Arnd

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 5/7] ACPI: Delay the enumeration on the devices
> whose dependency has not met
> 
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:21 AM, zhichang.yuan
> <yuanzhichang at hisilicon.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Rafael,
> >
> > Thanks for your review!
> >
> > On 2017/3/14 5:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Monday, March 13, 2017 10:42:41 AM zhichang.yuan wrote:
> >>> In commit 40e7fcb1929(ACPI: Add _DEP support to fix battery issue
> on Asus
> >>> T100TA), the '_DEP' was supported to solve the dependency of Asus
> battery. But
> >>> this patch is specific to Asus battery device.
> >>> In the real world, there are other devices which need the
> dependency to play the
> >>> role on the enumeration order. For example, all the Hip06 LPC
> >>> periperals(IPMI-BT, uart, etc) must be scanned after the LPC host
> driver
> >>> finished the probing. So, it makes sense to add a checking whether
> the ACPI
> >>> device meet all the dependencies during its enumeration slot, if
> not, the
> >>> enumeration will be delayed till all dependency master finish their
> work.
> >>>
> >>> This patch adds the dependency checking in ACPI enumeration, also
> the
> >>> corresponding handling to retrigger the Hip06 LPC peripherals'
> scanning.
> >>
> >> AFAICS, _DEP is generally abused in the wild and cannot be made
> generic.  Sorry.
> >>
> >
> > From the ACPI specification, _DEP is for operation region accesses.
> > You are right...
> >
> > How about we add a ACPI handler for our LPC bus?? Just like amba.
> > In this way, we also can solve the issue about LPC enumeration order.
> 
> As far as I can tell, PCI and LPC have exactly the same requirement
> here,
> so whatever you end up doing for one should be used for the other as
> well.

Well as you know PCI has got his own handler, identified by his own
namespace id "PNP0A03".
Now when you say "you end up doing for one should be used for the other"
are you saying that we should introduce a new class of devices?
i.e. should we have an ACPI namespace identifier for non-PCI IO Host
Controllers?  

Otherwise, if my understanding is correct, having a specific new ACPI
handler for HiSilicon LPC would mean to adding another function_init()
in the list of acpi handlers inits in acpi_scan_init().

But then every vendor would declare his own one...is this really correct?

Many Thanks
Gab

> 
>       Arnd