linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/18] ACPI / table: Count matched and successfully parsed entries without specifying max entries

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Message-ID: <7743567.TJcygJtKD3@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:15:43 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com, Kangkang.Shen@...wei.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/18] ACPI / table: Count matched and successfully parsed entries without specifying max entries

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 09:51:25 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On 2014年10月17日 21:36, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
> >
> > It is very useful to traverse all available table entries without max
> > number of expected entries type. Current acpi_parse_entries()
> > implementation gives that feature but it does not count those entries,
> > it returns 0 instead, so fix it to count matched and successfully
> > entries and return it.
> >
> > NOTE: This change has no impact to x86 and ia64 archs since existing code
> > checks for error occurrence only (acpi_parse_entries(...,0) < 0).
> >
> > Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> 
> Patch 2 and patch 3 are only for ACPI cores, and have no harm to x86
> and IA64, could you merge first in 3.19?

I can do that if that helps.

-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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