Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] ACPI: introduce acpi_table_parse2()

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:43:34PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> The function acpi_table_parse() has some problems:
> 1 It can be called only from __init code
> 2 It does not pass any data to the handler
> 3 It just throws out the value returned from the handler
> 
> These issues are addressed in this patch

Why not just fix acpi_table_parse(), like you have, and not add a new
API call with a "2" at the end of it.  That seems crazy to try to
maintain that level of apis.

But I'm not the acpi maintainer(s), so it's their call...

good luck,

greg k-h
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