linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:54:46 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lorenzo.pieralisi@....com,
        sudeep.holla@....com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:29:17PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> I agree that where there is a genuine problem, relevant messages can
> help to diagnose the problem. But what's printed now doesn't fit the
> criteria.

So make it fit the criteria. Change the code to not issue that message
when the platform doesn't have those tables. But keep it in the
remaining cases, when the tables are there.

You can't be removing useful error messages just because your platform
doesn't have the tables.

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    Boris.

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