On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:51:00PM +0300, Schmauss, Erik wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > On Behalf Of Shevchenko, Andriy > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:35 AM > > To: Schmauss, Erik <[email protected]> > > Cc: Nikolaus Voss <[email protected]>; Rafael J. Wysocki > > <[email protected]>; Moore, Robert <[email protected]>; Len Brown > > <[email protected]>; Jacek Anaszewski <[email protected]>; Pavel > > Machek <[email protected]>; Dan Murphy <[email protected]>; linux- > > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:09:05PM +0300, Schmauss, Erik wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Nikolaus Voss <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:08 AM > > > > To: Shevchenko, Andriy <[email protected]>; Schmauss, Erik > > > > <[email protected]>; Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>; > > > > Moore, Robert <[email protected]> > > > > Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>; Jacek Anaszewski > > > > <[email protected]>; Pavel Machek <[email protected]>; Dan > > > > Murphy <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > > > > [email protected]; linux- [email protected]; [email protected]; > > > > Nikolaus Voss <[email protected]> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index > > > > > > > Hi Nikolaus, > > > > > > > For unloading an ACPI table, it is necessary to provide the index of > > > > the table. > > > > The method intended for dynamically loading or hotplug addition of > > > > tables, acpi_load_table(), should provide this information via an > > > > optional pointer to the loaded table index. > > > > > > We'll take this patch for ACPICA upstream > > > > Erik, > > > Hi Andy, > > > how about to have also counterpart to acpi_load_table() which will do what > > it's > > done now in acpi_configfs.c via acpi_tb_*() API? > > I should have given more details. We decided to add this extra parameter in > AcpiLoadTable and > we're going to create an AcpiUnloadTable function that will take table index > to unload the table (basically the acpi_tb_unload..). > Once we do this, you can use table indices with AcpiUnloadTable and > AcpiLoadTable.
Sounds like what we discussed with Nikolaus earlier [1]. Thanks! [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/[email protected]/ -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
