Re: [PATCH 02/11] ACPI: acpica: Constify pathname argument for acpi_get_handle()

Rafael J. Wysocki
2022-05-19T18:05:18Z

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:41 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 6:14 PM Sakari Ailus
> > <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Rafael,
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 06:21:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 2:58 PM Sakari Ailus
> > > > <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > acpi_get_handle() uses the pathname argument to find a handle related to
> > > > > that pathname but it does not need to modify it. Make it const, in order
> > > > > to be able to pass const pathname to it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cc: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > Which patches in the rest of the series depend on this one?
> > >
> > > "ACPI: property: Parse data node string references in properties", i.e.
> > > patch 8 in this set.
> >
> > So I think I can apply the rest of the series, except for patch 8 and
> > patch 7 (as per the previous discussion) for the upcoming merge
> > window.
> >
> > Would that work?
>
> I suppose it would apply to this one, too?

Patch [2/11] will come to the kernel from upstream ACPICA at one point.

> Postponing these works for me.

So I tried to apply the series without patches [2,7-8/11], but that
didn't work (patch [9/11] did not apply).

Please resubmit without them or let's defer the entire series until we
get patch [2/11] from ACPICA.