On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > It is still unclear for me why we don't exit with error if acpi_load_table > > failed but continue to iterate keys and don't report a caller with error > > instead. I didn't change this logic for backward compatibility sake but > > still looks suspicious. > > > > I've queued this up now. > > I think there may be cases where it might make sense, or at least, > where currently, we might rely on the behavior where acpi_load_table() > failures are ignored. If a table references an object that does not > exist in the namespace (e.g., because some I2C controller is > disabled), it might still make sense to load remaining SSDTs if they > describe things that are unrelated. Yeah, sound reasonable. Thanks, Ard!
