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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/ec.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c index 13593f9f219..4c004286b3d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -862,8 +862,19 @@ static int ec_install_handlers(struct acpi_ec *ec) &acpi_ec_space_handler, NULL, ec); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { - acpi_remove_gpe_handler(NULL, ec->gpe, &acpi_ec_gpe_handler); - return -ENODEV; + if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND) { + /* + * Maybe OS fails in evaluating the _REG object. + * The AE_NOT_FOUND error will be ignored and OS + * continue to initialize EC. + */ + printk(KERN_ERR "Fail in evaluating the _REG object" + " of EC device. Broken bios is suspected.\n"); + } else { + acpi_remove_gpe_handler(NULL, ec->gpe, + &acpi_ec_gpe_handler); + return -ENODEV; + } } ec->handlers_installed = 1; |