Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] ACPI: introduce acpi_table_parse2()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:43:34PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
>> The function acpi_table_parse() has some problems:
>> 1 It can be called only from __init code
>> 2 It does not pass any data to the handler
>> 3 It just throws out the value returned from the handler
>>
>> These issues are addressed in this patch
>
> Why not just fix acpi_table_parse(), like you have, and not add a new
> API call with a "2" at the end of it.  That seems crazy to try to
> maintain that level of apis.
>
> But I'm not the acpi maintainer(s), so it's their call...

The ACPI maintainer agrees.

Thanks,
Rafael