From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlos Corbacho Subject: Re: Propose WMI patch Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:13:58 +0100 Message-ID: <200809301213.59150.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> References: <200809301206.35983.duartejcsilva@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from phoenix.slamd64.com ([217.10.145.2]:43558 "EHLO phoenix.slamd64.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752375AbYI3LOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:14:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200809301206.35983.duartejcsilva@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Duarte Silva Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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 -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D