Re: [PATCH 01/30] ACPICA: Linuxize: reduce divergences for 20160212 release

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 09:38 +0800, Lv Zheng wrote:
> The patch reduces source code differences between the Linux kernel and the
> ACPICA upstream so that the linuxized ACPICA 20160212 release can be
> applied with reduced human intervention.

In the very first patch fragment:

> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
[]
> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ acpi_hw_validate_register(struct acpi_generic_address *reg,
>   *
>   ******************************************************************************/
>  
> -acpi_status acpi_hw_read(u32 *value, struct acpi_generic_address *reg)
> +acpi_status acpi_hw_read(u32 *value, struct acpi_generic_address * reg)

The second argument * style appears the opposite of normal style
and a different style than the first argument * style.

> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
[]
> @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static char acpi_os_name[ACPI_MAX_OVERRIDE_LEN];
>  
>  acpi_status
>  acpi_os_predefined_override(const struct acpi_predefined_names *init_val,
> -			    char **new_val)
> +			    acpi_string *new_val)

And here:

acpi_string pointer style 1:

> diff --git a/include/acpi/acpiosxf.h b/include/acpi/acpiosxf.h
[]
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ acpi_physical_address acpi_os_get_root_pointer(void);
>  #ifndef ACPI_USE_ALTERNATE_PROTOTYPE_acpi_os_predefined_override
>  acpi_status
>  acpi_os_predefined_override(const struct acpi_predefined_names *init_val,
> -			    char **new_val);
> +			    acpi_string * new_val);

acpi_string pointer style 2:

There are varying styles for acpi_string *

So far, this just looks sloppy.
Should the rest be reviewed?

--
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



[Index of Archives]     [Linux IBM ACPI]     [Linux Power Management]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Laptop]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux