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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next prev parent 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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