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Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

From "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API
Date 2017-06-05 22:40 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > +   in_params[0].buffer.pointer     = (u8 *)&guid;
>>
>> Any idea why the pointer is defined as a u8 * in union acpi_object
>> instead of a void?
>
> I guess this question to Rafael.

That data type is defined in upstream ACPICA and the reason why it is
defined the way it is has something to do with history I suppose.

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-31 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-06-01 01:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-06-01 02:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-06-01 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-06-05 18:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-05 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-06-05 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-06-06 12:00 +0200

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