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authorAnthony Godshall, Ampro Computers, Inc <agodshall@ampro.com>2007-03-09 21:19:05 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2007-03-09 21:19:05 -0500
commit5b27b176da6cc83b0f904c7e0aabd9362d70bf70 (patch)
tree99d15494bbc88317c046d49ca4840dbb2a7bec11
parentf110ef58e6c9bd562999247c5e8a5b8e722fbd11 (diff)
ACPI: make blacklist more verbose
IMHO, ACPI disabled due to DMI failure or blacklisted year should be noted, as is done with other ACPI blacklisting. This will help people troubleshoot when ACPI isn't working. Status quo is a mysterious "ACPI Disabled" message without explanation on BIOS that implements ACPI but not DMI. This is actually fairly common on embedded x86 boards. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/blacklist.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c b/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
index f289fd41e77..3ec110ce00c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
@@ -79,11 +79,17 @@ static int __init blacklist_by_year(void)
{
int year = dmi_get_year(DMI_BIOS_DATE);
/* Doesn't exist? Likely an old system */
- if (year == -1)
+ if (year == -1) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "no DMI BIOS year, "
+ "acpi=force is required to enable ACPI\n" );
return 1;
+ }
/* 0? Likely a buggy new BIOS */
- if (year == 0)
+ if (year == 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "DMI BIOS year==0, "
+ "assuming ACPI-capable machine\n" );
return 0;
+ }
if (year < CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR) {
printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "BIOS age (%d) fails cutoff (%d), "
"acpi=force is required to enable ACPI\n",