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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:29:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] soundwire: Use acpi_dev_for_each_child()
To:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 10:10 AM Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 13-06-22, 20:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > Instead of walking the list of children of an ACPI device directly,
> > use acpi_dev_for_each_child() to carry out an action for all of
> > the given ACPI device's children.
> >
> > This will help to eliminate the children list head from struct
> > acpi_device as it is redundant and it is used in questionable ways
> > in some places (in particular, locking is needed for walking the
> > list pointed to it safely, but it is often missing).
>
> Applied, thanks

Thanks, but the export of acpi_dev_for_each_child() is being added by
one of the previous patches in the series, so this one will not
compile without the rest of the series in the modular case.

Is this not a problem?