From 683058e315f00a216fd6c79df4f63bc9945ca434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 00:26:16 +0200 Subject: ACPI / hotplug: Use device offline/online for graceful hot-removal Modify the generic ACPI hotplug code to be able to check if devices scheduled for hot-removal may be gracefully removed from the system using the device offline/online mechanism introduced previously. Namely, make acpi_scan_hot_remove() handling device hot-removal call device_offline() for all physical companions of the ACPI device nodes involved in the operation and check the results. If any of the device_offline() calls fails, the function will not progress to the removal phase (which cannot be aborted), unless its (new) force argument is set (in case of a failing offline it will put the devices offlined by it back online). In support of 'forced' device hot-removal, add a new sysfs attribute 'force_remove' that will reside under /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi index ce9bee98b43b..b4436cca97a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ Description: or 0 (unset). Attempts to write any other values to it will cause -EINVAL to be returned. +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove +Date: May 2013 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki +Description: + The number in this file (0 or 1) determines whether (1) or not + (0) the ACPI subsystem will allow devices to be hot-removed even + if they cannot be put offline gracefully (from the kernel's + viewpoint). That number can be changed by writing a boolean + value to this file. + What: /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ Date: February 2008 Contact: Len Brown -- cgit v1.2.3