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