Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ACPI/table: Always count matched and successfully parsed entries

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 04.08.15 at 06:19, <zhaoshenglong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is not true. All you did is port a Linux change.

> acpi_parse_entries() allows to traverse all available table entries (aka
> subtables) by passing max_entries parameter equal to 0, but since its count
> variable is only incremented if max_entries is not 0, the function always
> returns 0 for max_entries equal to 0.  It would be more useful if it returned
> the number of entries matched instead, so make it increment count in that
> case too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please mention the respective Linux commit. Without that I would
complain that "more useful" is too fuzzy (as in not making clear to
whom and why).

Jan


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