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 -- 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