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From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: Duarte Silva <duartejcsilva@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Propose WMI patch
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:13:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809301213.59150.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809301206.35983.duartejcsilva@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:06:35 Duarte Silva wrote:
> I wanted to propose a ACPI-WMI API change. Instead of having, wmi_has_guid
> returning a boolean, why not returning a acpi_status. It would allow
> extented error handling, and it would look more ACPI style :)

NAK.

We're not interested in ACPI error codes here, since we're never going to do 
anything with them.

We only care if the DSDT exists or not with this method - it's just a means of 
detection for other drivers.

-Carlos
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 11:06 Propose WMI patch Duarte Silva
2008-09-30 11:13 ` Carlos Corbacho [this message]
2008-09-30 11:16   ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-09-30 11:29     ` Duarte Silva
2008-09-30 11:40       ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-09-30 13:05         ` Duarte Silva

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