Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 11:52:09 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:38:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bjorn had a review comment which appears to remain unaddressed:
>
> : The original is definitely broken.
> :
> : I think the corrected test allows PNP IDs containing '@', which
> : doesn't appear legal per sec 6.1.5 of the ACPI 5.0 spec. Should this
> : be
> :
> : + if (!('A' <= (c) && (c) <= 'Z')) \
> :
> : instead?

I hate having to rain on the parade again ;)
I just developed some doubts, by accident again,
by getting dangerously near sound/isa/als100.c snd_als100_pnpids:
there are many IDs with '@' embedded (at least in this ISA-based PnP code),
thus I guess that code may have had its justification (unless ACPI 5.0
is clearly fully authoritative for this space and thus '@' does not have any
business there any more).

Dito e.g. isa/cmi8330.c.

Hmm, anyone deeply familiar with ISA PnP ID magic? :)

Andreas Mohr
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