ACPI / documentation: Remove reference to acpi_platform_device_ids from enumeration.txt

[mirror_ubuntu-bionic-kernel.git] / Documentation / acpi / enumeration.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
index fd786ea13a1ffddf7477b191193cdc89e5eadc3e..e182be5e3c83cb553341f7969678370e649fcb2d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
@@ -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.
 
 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
 DMA support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 DMA controllers enumerated via ACPI should be registered in the system to