Shaohua Li пишет: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:02:12PM +0800, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> 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... >> > frankly even you use UUID string, it's easy to make mistakes. The string > is too long. Copy-paste is already invented too :) > BTW, which function can convert UUID to byte array? > aslopcodes.c:633 OpcDoUuId(). Regards, Alex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
