Re: [PATCH] acpi: acpica: add acpi status check prior walking through namespace

From: Vadim Lomovtsev
Date: Thu Dec 14 2017 - 04:36:14 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:48:49PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Vadim Lomovtsev
> <Vadim.Lomovtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 09:52:21PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> >> Another way to look at this is that the kernel should not be calling ACPI interfaces if ACPI is disabled.
> >
> > Yes, I agree. So in this case the ltp_acpi test case has to be updated with such checking
> > before calling ACPI interfaces. However, it seems that such calls was put there intentionally,
> > without ACPI state check, as part of kernel testing strategy.
>
> Not really.

Ok, see your point.
Thank you for your time.

WBR,
Vadim

>
> Thanks,
> Rafael