Hi Rafael, 

Thank you for review.

On 02/13/2016 02:08 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:43:34PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:

quoted

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...

The ACPI maintainer agrees.

I see. 

How would you prefer it to be fixed:

1. Change the signature/implementation of acpi_table_parse(). 
CON: It would require extensive changes through all the kernel,
which I am not sure I will be able to test (but these changes are
just adding an unused arg to the handler + checking that the 
return value is consistent)

OR

2. Have a local implementation of the function like acpi_table_parse2()
CON: A bit of code duplication.

Thank you
Aleksey Makarov