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authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>2008-02-22 21:54:24 -0800
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-02-23 01:32:56 -0500
commit1071695f17daf050638e0bc550db647f8237c3bb (patch)
tree4770e712c2293d0156fbb53bebc6fa059a8a99eb /drivers/char/lp.c
parent39273b58a409cd6d65c9732bdca00bacd1626672 (diff)
downloadlinux-1071695f17daf050638e0bc550db647f8237c3bb.tar.gz
ACPI: crosslink ACPI and "real" device nodes
Add cross-links between ACPI device and "real" devices in sysfs,
exposing otherwise-hidden interrelationships between the various
device nodes for ACPI stuff.  As a representative example, one
hardware device is exposed as two logical devices (PNP and ACPI):

  .../pnp0/00:06/
  .../LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:15/PNP0B00:00/

The PNP device gets a "firmware_node" link pointing to the ACPI device,
and is what a Linux device driver binds to.  The ACPI device has instead
a "physical_node" link pointing back to the PNP device.  Other firmware
frameworks, like OpenFirmware, could do the same thing to couple their
firmware tables to the rest of the system.

(Based on a patch from Zhang Rui.  This version is modified to not
depend on the patch makig ACPI initialize driver model wakeup flags.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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