Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support

From	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support
Date	2015-06-17 23:40 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 11, 2015 04:10:18 PM Dan Williams wrote:
>> A struct nvdimm_bus is the anchor device for registering nvdimm
>> resources and interfaces, for example, a character control device,
>> nvdimm devices, and I/O region devices.  The ACPI NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
>> Interface Table) is one possible platform description for such
>> non-volatile memory resources in a system.  The nfit.ko driver attaches
>> to the "ACPI0012" device that indicates the presence of the NFIT and
>> parses the table to register a struct nvdimm_bus instance.
>>
>> Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
>> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
>> Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>

Thanks Rafael!

> [cut]
>
>> +
>> +static struct acpi_driver acpi_nfit_driver = {
>> +     .name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
>> +     .ids = acpi_nfit_ids,
>> +     .flags = ACPI_DRIVER_ALL_NOTIFY_EVENTS,
>
> But this flag is not needed for now IMO.

Indeed, I'll fold the removal in to a v7 when I add the acks and a few
other straggling bug fixes.
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[PATCH v6 02/21] libnvdimm,  nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-06-11 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2015-06-17 23:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 02/21] libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm  infrastructure and NFIT support Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-06-17 23:40 +0200

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