Re: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support

Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-26T10:21:07Z

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Huang, Ying wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 10:48 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > EFI uses the Windows x86_64 calling convention. The lin2win may be a
> > > more general naming convention that can be used for some other code (the
> > > NDISwrapper?) in the future. Do you agree?
> >
> > I agree not at all. I do not care whether the EFI creators smoked the
> > Windows-crackpipe or some other hallucinogen when they decided to use
> > this calling convention. We definitely do not want to think about
> > NDISwrapper or any other Windows related hackery in the kernel.
>
> OK, I will change the name to something like lin2efi.

Can we simply use call_efi_XXX(). lin2efi() sounds like a conversion
routine, but it is not.

tglx