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Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC

From Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC
Date 2017-03-23 12:00 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:06:44AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> The main problem is that representing anything hot-removable as a
> platform device is inherently fragile, as the platform bus type has no
> idea whatever about things that may physically go away and platform
> drivers don't expect that devices may vanish from under them in
> general and so on.  Unregistration alone doesn't help much with that,
> so IMO at least for now it's better to avoid using platform_device for
> hot-removable stuff.

Okay, thanks for the explanation. So patch 2 could be dropped, should I
resend without that patch or do you want to pick them up from this post?


	Joerg

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[PATCH 0/3] ACPI Fixes for Hotplug Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2017-03-22 18:40 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2017-03-22 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-03-22 18:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for  IOAPIC/IOxAPIC Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> - 2017-03-23 00:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-03-23 00:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for  IOAPIC/IOxAPIC Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2017-03-23 01:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-03-23 02:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for  IOAPIC/IOxAPIC Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> - 2017-03-23 12:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-03-23 12:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Don't create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-03-23 00:50 +0100

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