RE: [PATCH] remove 55 dead prototypes from include/acpi/acdisasm.h

[Carl Spalletta]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Spalletta [mailto:cspalletta@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:36 PM
>> To: Moore, Robert; lkml
>> Cc: Brown, Len; acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH] remove 55 dead prototypes from include/acpi/acdisasm.h

>>> --- "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> These aren't nonexistent functions, they are part of the AML
>>> disassembler (which is not always configured into the kernel)

>> With respect, I cannot find the functions listed below anywhere in
>> the kernel.org kernel.  Where are they?

> --- "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] remove 55 dead prototypes from include/acpi/acdisasm.h
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:48:12 -0700

> The ACPI CA AML debugger and disassembler haven't been integrated into
> the kernel yet, but development is underway and almost complete.

Yes, it is technically correct to say it "is not always configured into the kernel"
but it would be equally correct, and less misleading to say it is "never configured
into the kernel, because the code is not there".

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