RE: [PATCH 2/4] ACPI / osi: Cleanup _OSI("Linux") related code before introducing new support

From: Zheng, Lv
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 22:00:18 EST


Hi, Rafael

> From: rjwysocki@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rjwysocki@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Rafael J. Wysocki
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ACPI / osi: Cleanup _OSI("Linux") related code before
> introducing new support
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch cleans up OSI code in osl.c in order to make osi_linux not
> > _OSI("Linux") specific to allow new features to reuse this structure.
>
> I guess what you mean here is something like:
>
> Clean up OSI code in osl.c to make osi_linux work for OSI strings
> other than "Linux", so it can be re-used for other purposes.
>
> Is that correct?
[Lv Zheng]
Exactly!

Thanks
-Lv