On 07/01/2016 03:40 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The function acpi_parse_entries_array() has a limiting parameter, >> max_entries, which tells the function to stop looking at subtables >> once that limit has been reached. Further, if the limit is reached, >> it is reported. However, the logic is incorrect in that the loop >> to examine all subtables will always stop when exactly max_entries >> have been found, regardless of whether or not there are still subtables >> to examine, and it will always report that zero subtables have been >> ignored. This change allows the loop to continue to look at all >> subtables and count all the ones of interest; if we have already >> reached the number of max_entries, though, we will not invoke the >> callback functions. If the max_entries limit has been exceeded, >> report on that, as before, but more accurately, listing how many >> subtables of interest there are in total (as was meant), and how >> many entries each subtable type occupied. > > The problem appears to be that, if max_entries has been reached, it > prints "ignored 0", although it should count all of the entries in > that case too in principle. Do I think correctly? > Exactly. That's how I interpreted the comments. And it fit what I needed it to do if the comments were correct. Of course, it could be the code was correct and the comments were wrong :). I preferred not to think that. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------- -- 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
