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author | Alexander Chiang <achiang@hp.com> | 2009-06-10 21:55:30 +0200 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-06-18 05:22:16 +0200 |
commit | 499650de6906722184b639989b47227a362b62f8 (patch) | |
tree | f0920b27dc659fb976f3ac2ca77bca6a386cd6c0 /drivers/atm/nicstarmac.copyright | |
parent | ACPI: rearrange acpi_pci_bind/acpi_pci_unbind in pci_bind.c (diff) | |
download | linux-499650de6906722184b639989b47227a362b62f8.tar.xz linux-499650de6906722184b639989b47227a362b62f8.zip |
ACPI: eviscerate pci_bind.c
Now that we can dynamically convert an ACPI CA handle to a
struct pci_dev at runtime, there's no need to statically bind
them during boot.
acpi_pci_bind/unbind are vastly simplified, and are only used
to evaluate _PRT methods on P2P bridges and non-bridge children.
This patch also changes the time-space tradeoff ever so slightly.
Looking up the ACPI-PCI binding is never in the performance path, and by
eliminating this caching, we save 24 bytes for each _ADR device in the
ACPI namespace.
This patch lays further groundwork to eventually eliminate
the acpi_driver_ops.bind callback.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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