Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a generic API for _OSC

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:02:12PM +0800, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Shaohua Li пишет:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:52:45PM +0800, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Shaohua,
> >>
> >> Could you also make it take a spec string as argument, not a prepared
> >> byte buffer?
> >>     
> > Hi,
> > did you mean take the uuid string as an argument of the API? We can
> > add a function to convert a uuid string to binary, but I didn't see
> > any benefit to take the string as argument.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shaohua
> >   
> Hi,
> Well, right now you are programming in machine codes. If you make
> mistake, no one will notice, even yourself.
> Programming languages were invented to make programs look more readable
> by humans, so that they can see mistakes more easily.
> For the same reason ACPI specification declares UUIDs as strings, while
> having them in AML as byte arrays.
> Function to convert UUID to byte array already exists, you just need to
> use it...
frankly even you use UUID string, it's easy to make mistakes. The string
is too long. BTW, which function can convert UUID to byte array?

Thanks,
Shaohua
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