Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ACPI: ARM: exclude DMI calls

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 06:25 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:41 PM,  <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Modified #ifdef so that DMI is not used on ARM platforms which
>>> are currently implementing ACPI reduced HW mode.
>>
>>
>> It is really not allowed or is optional? There are various people that
>> want DMI tables on ARM.
>>
>> Rob
>
>
> True.  DMI is optional.  I see it as orthogonal to
> reduced HW mode; I have to hope that when DMI patches
> are forthcoming they'll do the right thing here.
>
> Is there a better way to do this in the #if ?


Doing all of these things at compile time seems odd, shouldn't it be
handled at runtime? What happens when someone wants to build a kernel
that boots both on the reduced hw mode platforms and regular ones?


-Olof
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