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authorJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2014-10-01 00:44:04 +1000
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2014-10-01 00:44:04 +1000
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@@ -60,12 +60,6 @@ If the driver needs to perform more complex initialization like getting and
configuring GPIOs it can get its ACPI handle and extract this information
from ACPI tables.
-Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI
-device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add
-the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in
-drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c. This limitation is only for the platform
-devices, SPI and I2C devices are created automatically as described below.
-
DMA support
~~~~~~~~~~~
DMA controllers enumerated via ACPI should be registered in the system to