Re: Propose WMI patch

Carlos Corbacho
2008-09-30T11:16:14Z

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:13:58 Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> 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.

s/DSDT/GUID/