Subject: Re: [patch net-next 06/11] ACPI: bus: move acpi_match_device_ids() to linux/acpi.h

From: "Yankejian (Hackim Yim)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 09:57:33 +0800

On 2016/5/13 21:15, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 16:19 +0800, Yisen Zhuang wrote:
>> From: Hanjun Guo <[email-masked]>
>>
>> acpi_match_device_ids() will be used for drivers to match
>> different hardware versions, it will be compiled in non-ACPI
>> case, but acpi_match_device_ids() in acpi_bus.h and it can
>> only be used in ACPI case, so move it to linux/acpi.h and
>> introduce a stub function for it.
> I somehow doubt this is right move.
>
> Like I said in the previous comment the architectural split might make
> this a bit better.
>
> You might use 
>
> #ifdef IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI)
> #else
> #endif
>
> only once to some big part of code. If kernel is build without ACPI
> support you even will not have this in your driver at all.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your suggestions. It will add stub function instead in next submit.

> -- 
> Andy Shevchenko <[email-masked]>
> Intel Finland Oy
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