Re: [ACPI] RE: [PATCH 1/2] make acpi_path_name() global

[Rajesh S. <raj...@in...>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:56:47PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
> 
> an example of this is acpi_get_name(), which as declared
> isn't supposed to be available outside the core.
> All the uses of it to print ACPI namespace tokens in /proc
> are totally bogus and should be deleted.  The other use
> of it is to print out debug strings -- stuff the OS
> doesn't really need to "know" and maybe something the
> core should do for it.  That leaves the hotplug use,
> which I don't understand.  What does SATA need

Hotplug drivers use it to print where we found good, bad or missing
ACPI methods like _HPP, OSHP, _OSC that we need to work properly.
This is very useful as a debug aid, since ACPI namespace problems
have always been the number one reason why the hotplug drivers
fail to work.

thanks,
Rajesh