On Friday, February 08, 2013 09:57:18 AM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 01:24 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, February 04, 2013 12:47:31 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The only useful thing that the ACPI container driver does is to
> > > install system notify handlers for all container and module device
> > > objects it finds in the namespace.  The driver structure,
> > > acpi_container_driver, and the data structures created by its
> > > .add() callback are in fact not used by the driver, so remove
> > > them entirely.
> > > 
> > > It also makes a little sense to build that driver as a module,
> > > so make it non-modular and add its initialization to the
> > > namespace scanning code.
> > > 
> > > In addition to that, make the namespace walk callback used for
> > > installing the notify handlers more straightforward.
> > 
> > As pointed out by Toshi Kani, the above changes would make 
> > acpi_eject_store()
> > fail for containers and it is the only way to eject them currently, so patch
> > [2/2] is an improved version of this (with Toshi's changes folded in).
> > 
> > Patch [1/2] is just a cleanup removing a useless #ifndef from 
> > acpi_eject_store().
> 
> Thanks for the update!  They look good.  For the series:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hp.com>
> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hp.com>
> 
> BTW, did you intentionally keep the struct acpi_container definition in
> <acpi/container.h>?  I deleted that one in my patch.

No, I overlooked that part.  I'll apply that part of your patch as a separate
patch on top of this one.

Thanks,
Rafael


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