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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn@helgaas.com>,
	"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pnpacpi: Better format error message
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:08:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103012208.14190.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D830858CA9C0F46@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tuesday 01 March 2011 18:03:23 Moore, Robert wrote:
> - there seem to be another problem in the acpica resource handling
> depths if _CRS functions do not return anything.
> 
> 
> Strictly speaking it's illegal for _CRS to not return anything.
> Practically, perhaps we should repair this case to a "NULL" resource
> descriptor which perhaps could be defined as a resource descriptor
> with a single End Tag descriptor.
Be aware that this was an early BIOS.
I am fine if there is an error message if this is not allowed.
It's the first time I saw such a message and an empty resource func.


    Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201103011513.40235.trenn@suse.de>
     [not found] ` <201103011524.50340.trenn@suse.de>
2011-03-01 16:25   ` [PATCH] pnpacpi: Better format error message Bjorn Helgaas
     [not found]     ` <201103011743.33975.trenn@suse.de>
2011-03-01 17:03       ` Moore, Robert
2011-03-01 21:08         ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2011-03-01 22:25           ` Moore, Robert

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