On Thursday, December 11, 2014 07:59:20 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Also the ACPI core is now going to support the _DEP configuration > > information in a limited way. > > Hmm. That seems to be the cause of this annoying new message: > > ... > ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing > PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use > "pci=nocrs" and report a bug > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:00: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:01: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:02: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:03: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:04: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:05: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:06: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb200) > acpi LNXCPU:07: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb840) > acpi device:27: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb840) > acpi device:3f: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff88040ccdb8c0) > acpi LNXVIDEO:00: Failed to evaluate _DEP. > ACPI: Power Resource [FN00] (off) > ... > > which doesn't seem to hinder anything from working, but is extremely > annoying because it's printed out as some super-important "KERN_ERR > message of Doom!" > > I don't see why incomplete ACPI tables would *ever* be "KERN_ERR" > level messages, but I particularly don't see it when it seems to be > our own meaningless fake entries. Right the KERN_ERR level in there is silly. Overlooked in review, sorry about that. The patch below should take care of it. Some of the messages you're seeing are from acpi_evaluate_reference(), though, and are not really useful too. I'll cut a separate patch for these. Rafael --- From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ACPI / scan: Change the level of _DEP-related messages to KERN_DEBUG Two _DEP-related failure messages are printed as dev_err() which is unnecessary and annoying. Use dev_dbg() to print them. While at it, one of the messages should actually say it is related to _DEP, so modify it to that effect. Fixes: 40e7fcb19293 (ACPI: Add _DEP support to fix battery issue on Asus T100TA) Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/scan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/scan.c +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c @@ -2214,7 +2214,7 @@ static void acpi_device_dep_initialize(s status = acpi_evaluate_reference(adev->handle, "_DEP", NULL, &dep_devices); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { - dev_err(&adev->dev, "Failed to evaluate _DEP.\n"); + dev_dbg(&adev->dev, "Failed to evaluate _DEP.\n"); return; } @@ -2224,7 +2224,7 @@ static void acpi_device_dep_initialize(s status = acpi_get_object_info(dep_devices.handles[i], &info); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { - dev_err(&adev->dev, "Error reading device info\n"); + dev_dbg(&adev->dev, "Error reading _DEP device info\n"); continue; } -- 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