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Re: [PATCH 12/15] ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Add full support for this version of ACPI spec

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Hi Bob,

On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 05:39:14 PM Moore, Robert wrote:
> 
> > There are few things I see missing in this patch in your updates made to
> > actbl1.h, I list them below:
> > 
> > 1) Adding time stamp as you did breaks backwards compatibility (something
> > we discovered during our testing).  We tried to remedy this by adding a
> > new version of the acpi_hest_generic_data structure.  Note that we named
> > it v3 to reflect this was the updated version number in ACPI 6.1. (see
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/5/549)
> 
> I used V300 in case there is ever some other 3xx version.
> 
> Plus, I made a full struct for the V300 case.
> 
> > 
> > 2) Missing definition of generic error data validation bits, needed to
> > determine whether or not field being read are valid or not (see
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/5/549)
> 
> Done.
> 
> > 
> > 3) Need to extend acpi_hest_notify_types to add GPIO, SEA, SEI, and GSIV
> > (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/5/545)
> 
> Done.

OK

Should I expect an update of the $subject patch, then, or will there be a new
patch on top of it?

Thanks,
Rafael

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RE: [PATCH 12/15] ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Add full support for this  version of ACPI spec "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> - 2016-02-24 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 12/15] ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Add full support for this version of ACPI spec "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-02-25 00:20 +0100

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