ACPI: make sure every acpi_device has an ID
authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:35:14 +0000 (13:35 -0600)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:26:02 +0000 (14:26 -0400)
This makes sure every acpi_device has at least one ID.  If we build an
acpi_device for a namespace node with no _HID or _CID, we sometimes
synthesize an ID like "LNXCPU" or "LNXVIDEO".  If we don't even have
that, give it a default "device" ID.

Note that this means things like:
    /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/HWP0001:00/HWP0002:04/device:00
(a PCI slot SxFy device) will have "hid" and "modprobe" entries, where
they didn't before.  These aren't very useful (a HID of "device" doesn't
tell you what *kind* of device it is, so it doesn't help find a driver),
but I don't think they're harmful.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/scan.c

index 269c0aa..53b96e7 100644 (file)
@@ -1155,6 +1155,16 @@ static void acpi_device_set_id(struct acpi_device *device)
                break;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * We build acpi_devices for some objects that don't have _HID or _CID,
+        * e.g., PCI bridges and slots.  Drivers can't bind to these objects,
+        * but we do use them indirectly by traversing the acpi_device tree.
+        * This generic ID isn't useful for driver binding, but it provides
+        * the useful property that "every acpi_device has an ID."
+        */
+       if (!hid && !cid_list && !cid_add)
+               hid = "device";
+
        if (hid) {
                device->pnp.hardware_id = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(strlen (hid) + 1);
                if (device->pnp.hardware_id) {