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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:05:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061207210527.GC4614@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165459893.14780.0.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:51:33PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:50 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > To test for the existence of an RTAS function, we typically do:
> > 
> >    foo_token = rtas_token("foo");
> >    if (foo_token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
> >       return;
> > 
> > Add a rtas_service_present method, which provides a more conventional
> > boolean interface for testing the existence of an RTAS method.
> 
> 
> I like it a lot ..

Me too ... How about making it inline?

--linas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-07  0:50 [PATCH 1/4] maple: match "pcie" name for CPC945 Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07  0:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] maple: select PPC_RTAS Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07  0:50   ` [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07  0:50     ` [PATCH 4/4] maple: use RTAS for reboot and halt Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07  2:51     ` [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper Michael Ellerman
2006-12-07  3:25       ` Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07 21:05       ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2006-12-07  3:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] maple: match "pcie" name for CPC945 Olof Johansson
2006-12-07  8:41   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-07  8:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-11 22:38   ` Nathan Lynch
2006-12-12 22:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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