linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/33] ACPI / PPTT: Find cache level by cache-id

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Message-ID: <6f2db559-5088-4082-ab5e-7b4a66723eb8@web.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:14:32 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/33] ACPI / PPTT: Find cache level by cache-id

…
> +++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
…
> @@ -221,6 +222,17 @@ void acpi_reserve_initial_tables (void);
>  void acpi_table_init_complete (void);
>  int acpi_table_init (void);
…
> +DEFINE_FREE(acpi_table, struct acpi_table_header *, if (!IS_ERR(_T)) acpi_put_table(_T))
> +
>  int acpi_table_parse(char *id, acpi_tbl_table_handler handler);
…

How do you think about to offer the addition of such a special macro call
by another separate update step?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc2#n81

Regards,
Markus