Re: ACPI blacklisting: move year blacklist into acpi/blacklist.c

From: Len Brown
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 01:41:35 EST


Re: dmi_check_blacklist()

Something like MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "P2B-DS") boils down to a strstr(a,
b) -- probably something that can be fooled by substring, say "PB2-D"...

But more to the point, there is no way to compare before/after dates,
say BEFORE(DMI_BIOS_DATE, "1/3/2002")

This is needed to blacklist things like the Toshiba Tecra 8100 which
supplies a DMI date, but no other useful version info.

If we such a date comparison function, we could also use it to make the
year-compare code below somewhat cleaner.

Re: externs
looks like using externs in the function protos in include/linux is
common practice, so acpi.h should probably do it too -- even if it is
just for consistent style.

Re: diffs
I couldn't get patch to digest this format w/o manual intervention
--- /usr/src/tmp/linux/arch/...
+++ /usr/src/linux/arch/...

and had to edit it into

--- a/arch/...
+++ b/arch/...

for patch -Np1

Re: acpi_bios_year() definition
note that CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT may be defined when CONFIG_ACPI is not. Ie.
in the case where just the ACPI boot code is used to enumerate LAPICs,
say for HT, but ACPI_INTERPRETER is not even built in.

In this case, blacklist.c is not built into the kernel, but dmi_scan.c
always is.

thanks,
-Len

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 06:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This moves year-based blacklisting to blacklist.c, where it belongs
> AFAICS. It also adds some externs to include/linux/acpi.h, but I
> believe *way* more externs are needed. Please apply,
>
> Pavel
>
> --- /usr/src/tmp/linux/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2003-09-28 22:05:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2003-10-01 11:55:21.000000000 +0200
> @@ -997,24 +998,10 @@
> int i;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
> -#define ACPI_BLACKLIST_CUTOFF_YEAR 2001
> -
> if (dmi_ident[DMI_BIOS_DATE]) {
> char *s = strrchr(dmi_ident[DMI_BIOS_DATE], '/');
> - if (s) {
> - int year, disable = 0;
> - s++;
> - year = simple_strtoul(s,NULL,0);
> - if (year >= 1000)
> - disable = year < ACPI_BLACKLIST_CUTOFF_YEAR;
> - else if (year < 1 || (year > 90 && year <= 99))
> - disable = 1;
> - if (disable && !acpi_force) {
> - printk(KERN_NOTICE "ACPI disabled because your bios is from %s and too old\n", s);
> - printk(KERN_NOTICE "You can enable it with acpi=force\n");
> - acpi_disabled = 1;
> - }
> - }
> + if (s && !acpi_force)
> + acpi_bios_year(s+1);
> }
> #endif
>
> --- /usr/src/tmp/linux/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c 2003-02-15 18:51:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c 2003-10-01 11:55:19.000000000 +0200
> @@ -83,6 +83,27 @@
> {""}
> };
>
> +#define ACPI_BLACKLIST_CUTOFF_YEAR 2001
> +
> +/*
> + * Notice: this is called from dmi_scan.c, which contains second (!) blacklist
> + */
> +void __init
> +acpi_bios_year(char *s)
> +{
> + int year, disable = 0;
> +
> + year = simple_strtoul(s,NULL,0);
> + if (year >= 1000)
> + disable = year < ACPI_BLACKLIST_CUTOFF_YEAR;
> + else if (year < 1 || (year > 90 && year <= 99))
> + disable = 1;
> + if (disable) {
> + printk(KERN_NOTICE "ACPI disabled because your bios is from %s and too old\n", s);
> + printk(KERN_NOTICE "You can enable it with acpi=force\n");
> + acpi_disabled = 1;
> + }
> +}
>
> int __init
> acpi_blacklisted(void)
> --- /usr/src/tmp/linux/include/linux/acpi.h 2003-08-27 12:00:48.000000000 +0200
> +++ /usr/src/linux/include/linux/acpi.h 2003-10-01 11:53:51.000000000 +0200
> @@ -403,8 +403,8 @@
>
> struct pci_dev;
>
> -int acpi_pci_irq_enable (struct pci_dev *dev);
> -int acpi_pci_irq_init (void);
> +extern int acpi_pci_irq_enable (struct pci_dev *dev);
> +extern int acpi_pci_irq_init (void);
>
> struct acpi_pci_driver {
> struct acpi_pci_driver *next;
> @@ -412,21 +412,22 @@
> void (*remove)(acpi_handle handle);
> };
>
> -int acpi_pci_register_driver(struct acpi_pci_driver *driver);
> -void acpi_pci_unregister_driver(struct acpi_pci_driver *driver);
> +extern int acpi_pci_register_driver(struct acpi_pci_driver *driver);
> +extern void acpi_pci_unregister_driver(struct acpi_pci_driver *driver);
>
> #endif /*CONFIG_ACPI_PCI*/
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_EC
>
> -int ec_read(u8 addr, u8 *val);
> -int ec_write(u8 addr, u8 val);
> +extern int ec_read(u8 addr, u8 *val);
> +extern int ec_write(u8 addr, u8 val);
>
> #endif /*CONFIG_ACPI_EC*/
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
>
> -int acpi_blacklisted(void);
> +extern int acpi_blacklisted(void);
> +extern void acpi_bios_year(char *s);
>
> #else
>

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