[PATCH] ACPI: Rename acpi_scan_device_not_present() to be about enumeration
Miguel Luis
miguel.luis at oracle.com
Tue Oct 24 04:38:39 PDT 2023
Hi Russell,
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 11:28, Russell King (Oracle) <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:15:07AM +0000, Miguel Luis wrote:
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>>> On 20 Oct 2023, at 18:47, Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
>>>
>>> acpi_scan_device_not_present() is called when a device in the
>>> hierarchy is not available for enumeration. Historically enumeration
>>> was only based on whether the device was present.
>>>
>>> To add support for only enumerating devices that are both present
>>> and enabled, this helper should be renamed. It was only ever about
>>> enumeration, rename it acpi_scan_device_not_enumerated().
>>>
>>> No change in behaviour is intended.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>>
>> Fixes: 443fc8202272 ("ACPI / hotplug: Rework generic code to handle suprise removals”) ?
>
> I'm not sure a patch that is merely renaming a function should ever
> have a Fixes tag, since it's just a naming issue, it doesn't fix a
> bug, change functionality or anything like that.
>
> I would suggest that there would need to be good reason why such a
> patch should be backported to stable kernels - for example, something
> else that does fix a user visible bug requires this change.
>
Understood. Thanks for clarifying!
Miguel
> Thanks.
>
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