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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] acpi: Fail GED probe when not on hardware-reduced
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> The Generic Event Device (GED) is a hardware-reduced platform device.

No, it is not AFAICS.

The spec doesn't say that GED cannot be used on platforms that aren't
HW-reduced and if evged.c is going to be built in unconditionally, the
kernel will be able to handle GED regardless.

> Probing this driver on fixed platforms should fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/evged.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/evged.c b/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> index aba0d0027586..55de4b2d2fee 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ static int ged_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct acpi_ged_device *geddev;
> acpi_status acpi_ret;
>
> + if (!acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> geddev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*geddev), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!geddev)
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.21.0
>

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