On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:51:00PM +0300, Schmauss, Erik wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org <linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org> > > On Behalf Of Shevchenko, Andriy > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:35 AM > > To: Schmauss, Erik <erik.schma...@intel.com> > > Cc: Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.v...@loewensteinmedical.de>; Rafael J. Wysocki > > <r...@rjwysocki.net>; Moore, Robert <robert.mo...@intel.com>; Len Brown > > <l...@kernel.org>; Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszew...@gmail.com>; Pavel > > Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>; Dan Murphy <dmur...@ti.com>; linux- > > a...@vger.kernel.org; de...@acpica.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > > n...@vosn.de > > 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 <nikolaus.v...@loewensteinmedical.de> > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:08 AM > > > > To: Shevchenko, Andriy <andriy.shevche...@intel.com>; Schmauss, Erik > > > > <erik.schma...@intel.com>; Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net>; > > > > Moore, Robert <robert.mo...@intel.com> > > > > Cc: Len Brown <l...@kernel.org>; Jacek Anaszewski > > > > <jacek.anaszew...@gmail.com>; Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>; Dan > > > > Murphy <dmur...@ti.com>; linux-a...@vger.kernel.org; > > > > de...@acpica.org; linux- ker...@vger.kernel.org; n...@vosn.de; > > > > Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.v...@loewensteinmedical.de> > > > > 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.
Sounds like what we discussed with Nikolaus earlier [1]. Thanks! [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20190924120734.gt2...@smile.fi.intel.com/ -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
