Re: irq: Invalid fwnode type (2) for irqdomain

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jul 05 2017 - 06:41:13 EST


On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Paul Menzel wrote:
> On a Lenovo X60t with coreboot based firmware testing the latest master
> branch from Linus, the message below is new, and isnât there with Linux
> 4.12.
>
> ```
> irq: Invalid fwnode type (2) for irqdomain
> ```
>
> `git blame kernel/irq/irqdomain.c` shows, the message is added in
> commit d59f661 (genirq: Allow fwnode to carry name information only).
>
> The commit message describes the warning.
>
> > Warn if an invalid node is supplied and treat it like no node. This
> > happensÂe.g. with i2 devices on x86 which hand in an ACPI type node
> > which has noÂinterface for retrieving the name.
>
> How can I find out, how the ACPI/ASL has to be fixed?

It's not an ACPI/ASL issue. Sorry, if the description and error message is
not clear. That's a kernel internal issue because we have no interface yet
to retrieve the required information. I'll have a look later today.

Thanks,

tglx