linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] soundwire: Use acpi_dev_for_each

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Message-ID: <YrRfd0AvYVn19wck@matsya>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:11:27 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sanyog Kale <sanyog.r.kale@...el.com>,
        "moderated list:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM..." 
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] soundwire: Use acpi_dev_for_each_child()

On 23-06-22, 14:29, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 10:10 AM Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 13-06-22, 20:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > >
> > > Instead of walking the list of children of an ACPI device directly,
> > > use acpi_dev_for_each_child() to carry out an action for all of
> > > the given ACPI device's children.
> > >
> > > This will help to eliminate the children list head from struct
> > > acpi_device as it is redundant and it is used in questionable ways
> > > in some places (in particular, locking is needed for walking the
> > > list pointed to it safely, but it is often missing).
> >
> > Applied, thanks
> 
> Thanks, but the export of acpi_dev_for_each_child() is being added by
> one of the previous patches in the series, so this one will not
> compile without the rest of the series in the modular case.

Aha, I checked the symbol exists and my test build passed!
> 
> Is this not a problem?

Yes indeed, so can you give a tag for that and or would you like to taje
this thru ACPI tree, in that case

Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>

BR
-- 
~Vinod