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author | Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> | 2022-02-28 23:39:31 +0100 |
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committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2022-03-03 20:34:45 +0100 |
commit | d72f06cee0d5cad0056967f0edc2c23b984238ba (patch) | |
tree | 620622a3645031df87866240a7f8b22de842a2f7 /Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi | |
parent | ACPI: docs: enumeration: Discourage to use custom _DSM methods (diff) | |
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ACPI: docs: enumeration: Update UART serial bus resource documentation
In some cases UART serial bus resource may be represented by struct
serdev_device.
Fixes: 53c7626356c7 ("serdev: Add ACPI support")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst index cda41e4255eb..799ca240e612 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst @@ -19,16 +19,17 @@ possible we decided to do following: platform devices. - Devices behind real busses where there is a connector resource - are represented as struct spi_device or struct i2c_device - (standard UARTs are not busses so there is no struct uart_device). + are represented as struct spi_device or struct i2c_device. Note + that standard UARTs are not busses so there is no struct uart_device, + although some of them may be represented by sturct serdev_device. As both ACPI and Device Tree represent a tree of devices (and their resources) this implementation follows the Device Tree way as much as possible. -The ACPI implementation enumerates devices behind busses (platform, SPI and -I2C), creates the physical devices and binds them to their ACPI handle in -the ACPI namespace. +The ACPI implementation enumerates devices behind busses (platform, SPI, +I2C, and in some cases UART), creates the physical devices and binds them +to their ACPI handle in the ACPI namespace. This means that when ACPI_HANDLE(dev) returns non-NULL the device was enumerated from ACPI namespace. This handle can be used to extract other |