linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ACPI: Switch to use generic guid_t in acpi_evaluate

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Date:   Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:42:30 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ACPI: Switch to use generic guid_t in acpi_evaluate_dsm()

On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:41:52 PM Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> acpi_evaluate_dsm() and friends take a pointer to a raw buffer of 16
> bytes. Instead we convert them to use guid_t type. At the same time we
> convert current users.
> 
> acpi_str_to_uuid() becomes useless after the conversion and it's safe to
> get rid of it.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>

with one caveat.

I have a pending patch that will use acpi_evaluate_dsm(), so I'd like this to
be made available in an immutable branch once applied.

Thanks,
Rafael