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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3 -v4] x86_64 EFI runtime service support: EFI basic runtime service support
    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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