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authorMark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>2008-03-18 15:24:32 -0500
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2008-05-19 18:17:27 -0400
commiteba9fe93a2959ec7f195c47c9db6ce7b5114ce1f (patch)
tree912914ce1ae6aec8301e3a4284aea62304fbf421 /arch
parent860da5e578c25d1ab4528c0d1ad13f9969e3490f (diff)
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: improve error messages
The most common error with powernow-k8 is an ACPI _PSS error caused either by failure to load the ACPI processor module or a bad parse of the _PSS object. Make the error message returned to the user in these situations more straightforward and easier to understand. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 46d4034d9f3..206791eb46e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1127,12 +1127,23 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
* an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD.
*/
if (num_online_cpus() != 1) {
- printk(KERN_ERR PFX "MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure\n");
+#ifndef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "ACPI Processor support is required "
+ "for SMP systems but is absent. Please load the "
+ "ACPI Processor module before starting this "
+ "driver.\n");
+#else
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Your BIOS does not provide ACPI "
+ "_PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. "
+ "Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers"
+ " and complain to your BIOS vendor.\n");
+#endif
kfree(data);
return -ENODEV;
}
if (pol->cpu != 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No _PSS objects for CPU other than CPU0\n");
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No ACPI _PSS objects for CPU other than "
+ "CPU0. Complain to your BIOS vendor.\n");
kfree(data);
return -ENODEV;
}