linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/30] ACPICA: Linuxize: reduce divergences for 20160212 release

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:15:54 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	"Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc:	Lv Zheng <zetalog@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] ACPICA: Linuxize: reduce divergences for 20160212
 release

On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 03:02 +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> Hi,

Hello.

> > So why not fix the process script first?
> > Maybe add something like:
> > $ grep -E "^typedef\s+\w+\s*\*?\s*acpi_\w+" include/acpi/actypes.h | \
> >   grep -Eoh "\bacpi_\w+"
> > 
> > to the acpi_types variable in the lindent_single function
> [Lv Zheng] 
> I don't think this can work given:
> 1. we are not only dealing with typedefs, but structs, struct xxx will be converted into types during the release process.
> 2. we have only upper cased type names in ACPICA upstream, but have the lower cased type names in Linux, and this doesn't solve that.
> So I guess you didn't test your idea.

Good guess.

The "maybe add something like" should give you a clue.

> You need to pull ACPICA repo and do the followings to confirm if this is working:

No, I disagree.  _I_ don't need to.  You need to.

You shouldn't have a process that generates defective patches
and then sends them to the list.

cheers, Joe