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author | Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> | 2010-12-13 05:39:37 (GMT) |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-01-12 09:27:00 (GMT) |
commit | da50337373c90c15c6db6ed4239e87c5a3806f9a (patch) | |
tree | fb13213a1af36ece5cb760a9567dd44683f6f368 /drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c | |
parent | a0fcdb237fcd4eaa7e5009b28ef5be07415f287d (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-da50337373c90c15c6db6ed4239e87c5a3806f9a.tar.xz |
ACPICA: Misc comments to minimize code divergence
Modify/add some comments to minimize ACPICA/linux GPE code divergence.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c index 734a494..c59dc23 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evgpeinit.c @@ -45,11 +45,27 @@ #include "accommon.h" #include "acevents.h" #include "acnamesp.h" -#include "acinterp.h" #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS ACPI_MODULE_NAME("evgpeinit") +/* + * Note: History of _PRW support in ACPICA + * + * Originally (2000 - 2010), the GPE initialization code performed a walk of + * the entire namespace to execute the _PRW methods and detect all GPEs + * capable of waking the system. + * + * As of 10/2010, the _PRW method execution has been removed since it is + * actually unnecessary. The host OS must in fact execute all _PRW methods + * in order to identify the device/power-resource dependencies. We now put + * the onus on the host OS to identify the wake GPEs as part of this process + * and to inform ACPICA of these GPEs via the acpi_setup_gpe_for_wake interface. This + * not only reduces the complexity of the ACPICA initialization code, but in + * some cases (on systems with very large namespaces) it should reduce the + * kernel boot time as well. + */ + /******************************************************************************* * * FUNCTION: acpi_ev_gpe_initialize @@ -222,7 +238,7 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) acpi_status status = AE_OK; /* - * 2) Find any _Lxx/_Exx GPE methods that have just been loaded. + * Find any _Lxx/_Exx GPE methods that have just been loaded. * * Any GPEs that correspond to new _Lxx/_Exx methods are immediately * enabled. @@ -235,9 +251,9 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) return; } + walk_info.count = 0; walk_info.owner_id = table_owner_id; walk_info.execute_by_owner_id = TRUE; - walk_info.count = 0; /* Walk the interrupt level descriptor list */ @@ -298,7 +314,7 @@ void acpi_ev_update_gpes(acpi_owner_id table_owner_id) * xx - is the GPE number [in HEX] * * If walk_info->execute_by_owner_id is TRUE, we only execute examine GPE methods - * with that owner. + * with that owner. * ******************************************************************************/ |