Re: [PATCH 1/4] ata: ahci_platform: Add ACPI support for AMD Seattle SATA controller

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 07:47:23PM -0500, suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch adds ACPI match table in ahci_platform. The table includes
> the acpi_device_id to match AMD Seattle SATA controller with following
> asl structure in DSDT:
> 
>     Device (SATA0)
>     {
>       Name(_HID, "AMDI0600")	// Seattle AHSATA

There really ought to be a well-defined PNPID for AHCI, so you can _HID 
to AMD and _CID to something generic. That way we won't have:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_ATA_ACPI
> +static const struct acpi_device_id ahci_acpi_match[] = {
> +	{ "AMDI0600", 0 }, /* AMD Seattle AHCI */
> +	{ },
> +};

utter sadness here. Really, please don't end up in a situation where we 
need to add device-specific IDs to a generic driver.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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