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| author | Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@hp.com> | 2012-10-02 12:43:23 -0600 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2012-10-06 15:52:16 -0400 |
| commit | d1efe3c324ead77d3f6cd85093b50f6bd2e17aba (patch) | |
| tree | 7c85ab68cc0d906c0479e816d955481723e945b1 /include/acpi | |
| parent | 369d913b242cae2205471b11b6e33ac368ed33ec (diff) | |
ACPI: Add new sysfs interface to export device description
Add support to export the device description obtained from the ACPI _STR
method, if one exists for a device, to user-space via a sysfs interface.
This new interface provides a standard and platform neutral way for users
to obtain the description text stored in the ACPI _STR method. If no
_STR method exists for the device, no sysfs 'description' file will be
created. The 'description' file will be located in the /sys/devices/
directory using the device's path.
/sys/device/<bus>/<bridge path>/<device path>.../firmware_node/description
Example:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00.07.0/0000:0e:00.0/firmware_node/description
It can also be located using the ACPI device path, for example:
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0004:00/PNP0A08:00/device:13/device:15/description
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0004:00/ACPI0004:01/ACPI0007:02/description
Execute the 'cat' command on the 'description' file to obtain the
description string for that device.
This patch also includes documentation describing how the new sysfs
interface works
Changes from v1-v2 based on comments by Len Brown and Fengguang Wu
* Removed output "No Description" and leaving a NULL attribute if the
_STR method failed to evaluate.
* In acpi_device_remove_files() removed the redundent check of
dev->pnp.str_obj before calling free. This check triggered a message
from smatch.
Signed-off-by: Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/acpi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h index bde976ee068d..3eb9de318824 100644 --- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h +++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h @@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ struct acpi_device_pnp { struct list_head ids; /* _HID and _CIDs */ acpi_device_name device_name; /* Driver-determined */ acpi_device_class device_class; /* " */ + union acpi_object *str_obj; /* unicode string for _STR method */ }; #define acpi_device_bid(d) ((d)->pnp.bus_id) |