As the comment above it indicates, acpi_get_object_info is intended for early probe usage and as such should not call any methods which may rely on OpRegions, before this commit it was also calling _STA, which on some systems does rely on OpRegions. Calling _STA before things are ready leads to errors such as these: [ 0.123579] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ECRM] (00000000ba9edc4c) [GenericSerialBus] (20170831/evregion-166) [ 0.123601] ACPI Error: Region GenericSerialBus (ID=9) has no handler (20170831/exfldio-299) [ 0.123618] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.I2C1.BAT1._STA, AE_NOT_EXIST (20170831/psparse-550) End 2015 support for the _SUB method was removed for exactly the same reason. Removing current_status from struct acpi_device_info only has a limit impact. Within ACPICA it is only used by 2 debug messages, both of which are modified to no longer print it with this commit. Outside of ACPICA, for Linux there is only one user. For which a patch to remove the dependency on the current_status field is available. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/dbdisply.c | 5 ++--- drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdumpdv.c | 5 ++--- drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfname.c | 19 ++++--------------- include/acpi/actypes.h | 2 -- 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbdisply.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbdisply.c index 5a606eac0c22..7b5eb33fe962 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbdisply.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbdisply.c @@ -642,9 +642,8 @@ void acpi_db_display_object_type(char *object_arg) return; } - acpi_os_printf("ADR: %8.8X%8.8X, STA: %8.8X, Flags: %X\n", - ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(info->address), - info->current_status, info->flags); + acpi_os_printf("ADR: %8.8X%8.8X, Flags: %X\n", + ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(info->address), info->flags); acpi_os_printf("S1D-%2.2X S2D-%2.2X S3D-%2.2X S4D-%2.2X\n", info->highest_dstates[0], info->highest_dstates[1], diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdumpdv.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdumpdv.c index 5026594763ea..573a5f36f01a 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdumpdv.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdumpdv.c @@ -88,10 +88,9 @@ acpi_ns_dump_one_device(acpi_handle obj_handle, } ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT_RAW((ACPI_DB_TABLES, - " HID: %s, ADR: %8.8X%8.8X, Status: %X\n", + " HID: %s, ADR: %8.8X%8.8X\n", info->hardware_id.value, - ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(info->address), - info->current_status)); + ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(info->address)); ACPI_FREE(info); } diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfname.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfname.c index 106966235805..0a9c600c2599 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfname.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfname.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static char *acpi_ns_copy_device_id(struct acpi_pnp_device_id *dest, * namespace node and possibly by running several standard * control methods (Such as in the case of a device.) * - * For Device and Processor objects, run the Device _HID, _UID, _CID, _STA, + * For Device and Processor objects, run the Device _HID, _UID, _CID, * _CLS, _ADR, _sx_w, and _sx_d methods. * * Note: Allocates the return buffer, must be freed by the caller. @@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ static char *acpi_ns_copy_device_id(struct acpi_pnp_device_id *dest, * discovery namespace traversal. Therefore, no complex methods can be * executed, especially those that access operation regions. Therefore, do * not add any additional methods that could cause problems in this area. - * this was the fate of the _SUB method which was found to cause such - * problems and was removed (11/2015). + * Because of this reason support for the following methods has been removed: + * 1) _SUB method was removed (11/2015) + * 2) _STA method was removed (01/2018) * ******************************************************************************/ @@ -374,20 +375,8 @@ acpi_get_object_info(acpi_handle handle, * Notes: none of these methods are required, so they may or may * not be present for this device. The Info->Valid bitfield is used * to indicate which methods were found and run successfully. - * - * For _STA, if the method does not exist, then (as per the ACPI - * specification), the returned current_status flags will indicate - * that the device is present/functional/enabled. Otherwise, the - * current_status flags reflect the value returned from _STA. */ - /* Execute the Device._STA method */ - - status = acpi_ut_execute_STA(node, &info->current_status); - if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) { - valid |= ACPI_VALID_STA; - } - /* Execute the Device._ADR method */ status = acpi_ut_evaluate_numeric_object(METHOD_NAME__ADR, node, diff --git a/include/acpi/actypes.h b/include/acpi/actypes.h index 4f077edb9b81..220ef8674763 100644 --- a/include/acpi/actypes.h +++ b/include/acpi/actypes.h @@ -1191,7 +1191,6 @@ struct acpi_device_info { u8 flags; /* Miscellaneous info */ u8 highest_dstates[4]; /* _sx_d values: 0xFF indicates not valid */ u8 lowest_dstates[5]; /* _sx_w values: 0xFF indicates not valid */ - u32 current_status; /* _STA value */ u64 address; /* _ADR value */ struct acpi_pnp_device_id hardware_id; /* _HID value */ struct acpi_pnp_device_id unique_id; /* _UID value */ @@ -1205,7 +1204,6 @@ struct acpi_device_info { /* Flags for Valid field above (acpi_get_object_info) */ -#define ACPI_VALID_STA 0x0001 #define ACPI_VALID_ADR 0x0002 #define ACPI_VALID_HID 0x0004 #define ACPI_VALID_UID 0x0008 -- 2.14.3