On Sunday 07 October 2007 23:35, Zhao Yakui wrote: > Subject: ACPI: avoid printing the info that processor device is not present > From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > > Four processors are defined in the DSDT table, which means that quad-core cpu > is supported. But dual-core cpu is installed on the system. In the > initialization OS will check whether the defined processor exists. If it > doesn't exist, it will print the info that processor device is not present. > The above error message has no effect on the system but it will mislead us. > So it is unnecessary to print the error message when disabling acpi debug. SuSE ships with ACPI_DEBUG enabled by default. Can we get smarter about this -- say by checking against the processors that we expect to be present? thanks, -Len > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8630 > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.23-rc7.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c > @@ -813,7 +813,9 @@ static int is_processor_present(acpi_han > > status = acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_STA", NULL, &sta); > if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !(sta & ACPI_STA_DEVICE_PRESENT)) { > - ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status, "Processor Device is not present")); > + ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, > + "%s :Processor Device is not present", > + acpi_format_exception(status))); > return 0; > } > return 1; > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
