From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758886Ab2IMVLS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:11:18 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([193.178.161.156]:53006 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752235Ab2IMVLP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:11:15 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: power: Use KERN_DEBUG when no power resources are found Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:17:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.6.0-rc5+; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Aaron Lu , Linus Torvalds , Joe Perches , Lin Ming , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <1344564353-493-1-git-send-email-aaron.lu@amd.com> <20120829020134.GA1761@aaronlu.sh.intel.com> <20120913134819.GD19691@aftab.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120913134819.GD19691@aftab.osrc.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201209132317.32969.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, September 13, 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:01:36AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:36:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 15:26 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:05:53AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > > > > > commit a606dac368eed5696fb38e16b1394f1d049c09e9 adds support to link > > > > > devices which have _PRx, if a device does not have _PRx, a warning > > > > > message will be printed. > > > > > > > > > > This commit is for ZPODD on Intel's platform, on AMD's platform, there > > > > > is no _PRx to support ZPODD, we use _PSx. > > > > > > > > > > So instead of printing a useless warning message on AMD's platform, > > > > > changing the print level to DEBUG to suppress this message. > > > [] > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power.c b/drivers/acpi/power.c > > > [] > > > > > @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ int acpi_power_resource_register_device(struct device *dev, acpi_handle handle) > > > > > return ret; > > > > > > > > > > no_power_resource: > > > > > - printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid Power Resource to register!"); > > > > > + printk(KERN_DEBUG PREFIX "Invalid Power Resource to register!"); > > > > > > Perhaps add something like: > > > if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) > > > printk(etc...) > > > instead? > > > > Sorry for not describing this problem clear, this would also occur on > > Intel platforms as long as that device we are calling this register > > function on does not have any power resource attached to it. > > > > So the problem is actually, does the acpi_power_resource_register_device > > function expect such input devices that they do not have any power > > resource attached? If yes, then it shouldn't complain with a warning > > message; if no, then we should probably check these conditions before > > making such a call. > > > > Looking at the function itself, I think it expects such devices so a > > warning message here is not appropriate. > > This is still present in -rc5. > > Linus, this message obviously warns for no good reason. Can you please > pick up the patch at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134456468110431 > since ACPI people don't seem to react here. I'll take it. There are two more ACPI PM patches that would be good to have in v3.6 IMO. Thanks, Rafael