On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Huang, Ying wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 10:48 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > EFI uses the Windows x86_64 calling convention. The lin2win may be a
> > > more general naming convention that can be used for some other code (the
> > > NDISwrapper?) in the future. Do you agree?
> >
> > I agree not at all. I do not care whether the EFI creators smoked the
> > Windows-crackpipe or some other hallucinogen when they decided to use
> > this calling convention. We definitely do not want to think about
> > NDISwrapper or any other Windows related hackery in the kernel.
>
> OK, I will change the name to something like lin2efi.
Can we simply use call_efi_XXX(). lin2efi() sounds like a conversion
routine, but it is not.
tglx
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