From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/radeon: implement ACPI VFCT vbios fetch (v2) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:03:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20120817170313.GA11909@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20120816182547.GB31978@kroah.com> <1345144427-7175-1-git-send-email-alexdeucher@gmail.com> <20120816193959.GI496971@jupiter.n2.diac24.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk (cavan.codon.org.uk [93.93.128.6]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A8A9E967 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Alex Deucher Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, David L , Alex Deucher List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:56:31PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > I guess we could leave it as is for now for -fixes and then switch it > > use use the new exported symbol for -next? Is it ok to export a new > > symbol for -fixes? I don't see why not, providing the ACPI people are happy with it. > >> So, er, I had no clue how to clean up the return value of acpi_get_table > >> - does this actually need to be cleaned up? Or do you just get a > >> pointer straight to the "real" ACPI table? > > > > Not sure on that. Anyone know more about the acpi code? Not sure what you're asking here - acpi_get_table returns acpi_status, not a pointer. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org