Re: [patch] ACPI: reduce code size, clean up, fix validator message

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> An Andrew's advice a while back, Bob already got rid
> of the allocate part -- it just isn't upstream yet.
> 
> Re: changing ACPICA code (sub-directories of drivers/acpi/) like this:
> 
> >-	flags = acpi_os_acquire_lock(acpi_gbl_gpe_lock);
> >+	spin_lock_irqsave(&acpi_gbl_gpe_lock, flags);
> 
> I can't do that without either
> 1. diverging between Linux and ACPICA
> or
> 2. getting a license back from you to Intel such that Intel can
>    re-distrubute such a change under the Intel license on the file and 
>    inventing spin_lock_irqsave() on about 9 other operating systems.

btw., regarding #2 i hereby put my patch (which i wrote in my free time) 
into the public domain - feel free to reuse it in any way, shape or 
form, under any license. (but it's trivial enough so i guess the only 
copyrightable element is my changelog entry anyway ;)

> If this code were performance or size critical, I would still delete 
> acpi_os_acquire_lock from osl.c, but would inline it in aclinux.h.

well its in the kernel so it's size critical by definition. But it's 
certainly not a highprio thing.

	Ingo