linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Check whether ACPI is disabled before getting a table

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Message-ID: <20170821153415.54cwpytwfuq2bpec@pd.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:34:15 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:EDAC-CORE" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Check whether ACPI is disabled before getting a
 table

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 03:30:47PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Is acpi_disabled an ACPICA variable?

Doesn't look like it: it is defined in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c

> If not, this cannot go upstream. Not a big deal I guess, but somewhat
> yucky.

Uff, there's that "sync" of keeping ACPICA code and its version in the
kernel the same. Yuck.

Oh well.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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