>>just ignore all >>exceptions from _REG methods, other than printing some kind of message. Yes, I mean that some kind of warning would be appropriate. There may be many places where we don't want to simply give up because some method failed. >-----Original Message----- >From: Kleen, Andi >Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:20 PM >To: Moore, Robert; 'Joshua C.'; 'linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' >Cc: Lin, Ming M >Subject: RE: [PATCH] ACPI: Ignore AE_NOT_FOUND error of EC _REG method and >continue to initialize EC > > > >>Looking at this patch, I see that it solves a very specific >>case, namely the AE_NOT_FOUND exception. However, this is just >>one of many exceptions that we may want to ignore. In fact, I >>wonder if in the general case we should just ignore all >>exceptions from _REG methods, other than printing some kind of message. > >You mean the exceptions should be silently ignored? I think ignoring >exceptions on more methods is probably a good idea. > >But at least some kind of warning would be probably good, wouldn't it? > >-Andi -- 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
