From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:25:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061207032523.GG18846@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165459893.14780.0.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:50 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > To test for the existence of an RTAS function, we typically do:
> >
> > foo_token = rtas_token("foo");
> > if (foo_token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
> > return;
> >
> > Add a rtas_service_present method, which provides a more conventional
> > boolean interface for testing the existence of an RTAS method.
>
>
> I like it a lot ..
>
> But should it be called rtas_token_present() ? :D
I considered that, but thought my name was a little more descriptive
-- a token is merely an integer value, but we're really interested in
whether the service named is available.
I don't really care that much either way, though :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-07 0:50 [PATCH 1/4] maple: match "pcie" name for CPC945 Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07 0:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] maple: select PPC_RTAS Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07 0:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07 0:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] maple: use RTAS for reboot and halt Nathan Lynch
2006-12-07 2:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] add rtas_service_present() helper Michael Ellerman
2006-12-07 3:25 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2006-12-07 21:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-07 3:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] maple: match "pcie" name for CPC945 Olof Johansson
2006-12-07 8:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-07 8:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-11 22:38 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-12-12 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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