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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/acpi')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt | 9 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index 2a1519b8717..e182be5e3c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -60,12 +60,6 @@ If the driver needs to perform more complex initialization like getting and configuring GPIOs it can get its ACPI handle and extract this information from ACPI tables. -Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI -device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add -the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in -drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c. This limitation is only for the platform -devices, SPI and I2C devices are created automatically as described below. - DMA support ~~~~~~~~~~~ DMA controllers enumerated via ACPI should be registered in the system to @@ -296,7 +290,7 @@ specifies the path to the controller. In order to use these GPIOs in Linux we need to translate them to the corresponding Linux GPIO descriptors. There is a standard GPIO API for that and is documented in -Documentation/gpio.txt. +Documentation/gpio/. In the above example we can get the corresponding two GPIO descriptors with a code like this: diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt b/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt index 260f6a3661f..1860cb3865c 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt @@ -235,10 +235,6 @@ Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>. named object's type in the second column). In that case the object's directory in sysfs will contain the 'path' attribute whose value is the full path to the node from the namespace root. - struct acpi_device objects are created for the ACPI namespace nodes - whose _STA control methods return PRESENT or FUNCTIONING. The power - resource nodes or nodes without _STA are assumed to be both PRESENT - and FUNCTIONING. F: The struct acpi_device object is created for a fixed hardware feature (as indicated by the fixed feature flag's name in the second @@ -340,7 +336,7 @@ Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>. | +-------------+-------+----------------+ | | | | +- - - - - - - +- - - - - - +- - - - - - - -+ - | +-| * PNP0C0D:00 | \_SB_.LID0 | acpi:PNP0C0D: | + | +-| PNP0C0D:00 | \_SB_.LID0 | acpi:PNP0C0D: | | | +- - - - - - - +- - - - - - +- - - - - - - -+ | | | | +------------+------------+-----------------------+ @@ -390,6 +386,3 @@ Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>. attribute (as described earlier in this document). NOTE: N/A indicates the device object does not have the 'path' or the 'modalias' attribute. - NOTE: The PNP0C0D device listed above is highlighted (marked by "*") - to indicate it will be created only when its _STA methods return - PRESENT or FUNCTIONING. |