Re: [PATCH] ACPI: don't show an error when we're not in charge of PCIe hotplug.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 10:57:16 EST


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Right now when booting, on many laptops the firmware manages the PCIe
>> bus. As a result, when we call the _OSC ACPI method, it returns an
>> error code. Unfortunately the errors are not very articulate.
>
> What exactly do you mean here?
>
>> As a result, we show:
>>
>> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-fe])
>> acpi PNP0A08:00: _OSC: OS supports [ExtendedConfig ASPM ClockPM Segments MSI]
>> \_SB_.PCI0 (33DB4D5B-1FF7-401C-9657-7441C03DD766): _OSC invalid UUID
>> _OSC request data: 1 1f 0
>
> So _OSC told us that the UUID was invalid, didn't it?

BTW, the above messages are KERN_DEBUG, so at least in theory they
shouldn't be visible in production runs.

Maybe the bug to fix is that they show up when they aren't supposed to?