Re: [PATCH] ACPI: EC: Don't init EC early if it has no _INI

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applied.

thanks,
-len

On Thursday 15 November 2007 13:52, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Option to init EC early inserted to handle #8598 ASUS problem,
> introduced several others. 
> EC driver in this particular case has fake _INI method, not present on
> other machines, which don't need or break from this workaround, so lets use
> its presence as a flag for early init.
> 
> Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9262
> Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598
> Reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334806
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/acpi/ec.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> index 06b78e5..56afe13 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -881,12 +881,20 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
>  		boot_ec->gpe = ecdt_ptr->gpe;
>  		boot_ec->handle = ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT;
>  	} else {
> +		/* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,
> +		 * which require early EC, but fail to provide ECDT */
> +		acpi_handle x;
>  		printk(KERN_DEBUG PREFIX "Look up EC in DSDT\n");
>  		status = acpi_get_devices(ec_device_ids[0].id, ec_parse_device,
>  						boot_ec, NULL);
>  		/* Check that acpi_get_devices actually find something */
>  		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !boot_ec->handle)
>  			goto error;
> +		/* We really need to limit this workaround, the only ASUS,
> +		 * which needs it, has fake EC._INI method, so use it as flag.
> +		 */
> +		if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_get_handle(boot_ec->handle, "_INI", &x)))
> +			goto error;
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = ec_install_handlers(boot_ec);
> 
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