Re: [PATCH] ACPI: acenv: Permit compilation from within the kernel

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Nov 14 2023 - 15:20:31 EST


On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 7:09 PM Sam Edwards <cfsworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am not an ACPI subsystem maintainer, but my understanding is that the
> files in include/acpi/ are copied verbatim from ACPICA, so any change to
> those files will have to be sent to the ACPICA project and wouldn't be
> accepted here.
>
> More likely, we'd want to do something about the circular-include
> situation between linux/fw_table.h<->linux/acpi.h.

I agree but I have no idea how to fix that really, should I just send
a revert instead so the authors can get some time to figure it out?

Yours,
Linus Walleij