On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 12:40:51 PM Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2015/11/24 7:32, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:22:27PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: > >>>> acpi_dev_present > >> Do you really want to be walking the ACPICA namespace for every call? > > That's what the drivers currently do. Typically this is called only once > > on initialization by the driver's ->probe callback. > > > > What did you have in mind instead, cache the result? Or store the HIDs > > in the namespace in a hash that can be queried faster? > > Will those drivers be loaded before the acpi namespace is scanned? if not, I > think > those IDs already cached, in acpi_init_device_object(), > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&device->pnp.ids); > ... > acpi_set_pnp_ids(handle, &device->pnp, type); > > please see API acpi_device_hid(), so I think you can introduce a API with > acpi_device and HID passed as arguments in scan.c
I'd prefer that to go to utils.c to be honest, even if the namespace needs to be walked. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
