On 03/10/17 12:39, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 3:16:22 AM CEST Jérémy Lefaure wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:27:52 +0200 >> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> ACPICA is soewhat special code, though and I'm not taking or ACKing patches >>> for it directly as a rule. >>> >>> For one, I'm not sure if ACPICA can use ARRAY_SIZE at all. >> Why is it special code that can't use ARRAY_SIZE ? Is it because this >> macro is defined in linux/kernel.h ? However, ACPICA does have ACPI_ARRAY_LENGTH(x), see source/include/actypes.h > > Basically, yes. > > ACPICA is a separate project and the kernel acquires its source code from > the upstream (which is used by other OSes too). That is not the case for > any other code in the kernel I know about. > > > We strive to keep the ACPICA code in the kernel as close to the upstream as > reasonably possible for maintenance reasons, so we avoid doing Linux-specific > things in it. > > As a rule of thumb, if you do cleanups like this one, better avoid the ACPICA > code. :-) > > Thanks, > Rafael > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.acpica.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- 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
