RE: [patch 1/3] acpi: dock driver

[Brown, Len]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:42 -0700, Brown, Len wrote:

>> Re: acpi_os_free()
>> Please call kfree() instead, that wrapper is intended
>> just for the ACPICA core and although it appears symmetric,
>> it really shouldn't be used outside drivers/acpi/*/*.c

> Really?  why is it exported then?  We use this in drivers/pci/hotplug
as
> well, and it is all over the place in drivers/acpi.  Should I be
> modifying the hotplug drivers to not use this call?

yes.

re: why it is exported?
this is just the tip of the ice-berg of things that are exported and
should not be.

thanks,
-Len
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