Re: [PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 5:52:55 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 6/24/08, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > i havent seen the warning reappear with your fix after thousands of
> > bootups - so i guess we can consider it fixed.
> >
> > Len, please consider the patch below. (it's in tip/out-of-tree)
>
> No, please don't :-)
>
> It fixes your particular case (the acpi_rtc_init() hunk of the patch),
> but the acpi_walk_namespace() part should be changed to a WARN(). But
> that is likely to cause a lot of "spurious" reports, so the other acpi
> drivers should be fixed as well.
>
> I was waiting for Len to reply, but maybe I can submit the proper fix too.

I haven't looked into the acpi_walk_namespace() question.

But I did look at the acpi_rtc_init() stuff, and I have to say it
looks like a really round-about way to accomplish this.  I'd rather
just fold in the FADT accesses directly into cmos_do_probe() and
dispense with the stuff in drivers/acpi/glue.c.  I'm working on a
couple patches along this line, but it will take me a few days to
finish up.

Bjorn
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