On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:44 PM Nikolaus Voss <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, 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. > > that's even better news. > > Rafael, shall I prepare anything?
I don't think so. I'm expecting to get a proper fix from the upstream through the normal process. Thanks, Rafael
