[PATCH v5 03/18] ACPI / table: Count matched and successfully parsed entries without specifying max entries

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Tue Nov 18 12:15:43 PST 2014


On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 09:51:25 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On 2014年10月17日 21:36, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki at linaro.org>
> >
> > It is very useful to traverse all available table entries without max
> > number of expected entries type. Current acpi_parse_entries()
> > implementation gives that feature but it does not count those entries,
> > it returns 0 instead, so fix it to count matched and successfully
> > entries and return it.
> >
> > NOTE: This change has no impact to x86 and ia64 archs since existing code
> > checks for error occurrence only (acpi_parse_entries(...,0) < 0).
> >
> > Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>
> 
> Patch 2 and patch 3 are only for ACPI cores, and have no harm to x86
> and IA64, could you merge first in 3.19?

I can do that if that helps.

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