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

[Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>]

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...

Regards,
Alex.
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