Re: [PATCH] drivers: acpi: add opt-out of Apple-specific property parsing

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 13:21:27 EST


On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:47 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<info@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Most x86 machines aren't Apple machines, especially VMs.
> Therefore allow opt-out, making the kernel a few KBs smaller,
> eg. for embedded or high-density VMs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
> drivers/acpi/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/acpi/internal.h | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> index edf1558c1105..cc47de4f2b18 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> @@ -79,6 +79,15 @@ config ACPI_DEBUGGER_USER
>
> endif
>
> +config ACPI_APPLE
> + bool "Apple ACPI properties support"
> + default y if X86
> + help
> + Extraction of Apple-specific ACPI properties.
> +
> + Say N if you're sure the kernel won't be used on an Apple machine
> + and wanna save a few kb of memory. (embedded or high-density VMs)

Do you mean bits of bytes here?

If the latter, please spell this as KB.

Thanks!