RE: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Ignore the upper bits of SystemIO addresses

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No, ACPICA does not have a WARN_ONCE. In some places, we implement something similar by marking a namespace node, but that's all.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Garrett [mailto:mjg@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:27 AM
>To: Bjorn Helgaas
>Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Moore, Robert; lenb@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Ignore the upper bits of SystemIO addresses
>
>On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:18:46AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
>> I think this is a good idea.  But it makes me a little bit nervous
>> to change addresses supplied by the firmware without any user-visible
>> indication at all.  Is it worth doing a WARN_ONCE() sort of thing
>> when we truncate?
>
>That doesn't seem unreasonable, but do we have anything equivalent to
>that in the acpica code right now?
>
>> I know you experimented quite a bit to confirm that Windows does this
>> sort of masking.  Do you have any notes about that experimentation
>> that would be useful to add to the bugzilla?
>
>Sure. I'll do that.
>
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>Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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