On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 1:38 PM Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 01:36:27PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 02:17:28PM +0530, Raag Jadav wrote:
> > > Convert manual _UID references to use standard ACPI helpers.
> >
> > Yes, while not so obvious this is the correct replacement.
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I think this is the only case which would suffer from the more obvious
> behaviour, i.e.
>
> bool acpi_dev_uid_match(struct acpi_device *adev, const char *uid2)
> {
> const char *uid1 = acpi_device_uid(adev);
>
> return uid1 && uid2 && !strcmp(uid1, uid2);
> }
>
> That said, we can't be particularly sure about it's potential future users,
> especially when the usage will not be limited to just ACPI core since we're
> exporting it.
I actually agree with this, so please switch over to the above.
The above is straightforward and easy to understand and if somebody
wants to treat uid2 == NULL as a match, let them check that explicitly
before calling this function.
