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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: "Ronald Tschalär" <ronald@innovation.ch>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Federico Lorenzi <florenzi@gmail.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / LPSS: Don't abort acpi scan on missing mem resource.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:47:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170807104709.GU2369@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1501890376-2662-1-git-send-email-ronald@innovation.ch>

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 04:46:16PM -0700, Ronald Tschalär wrote:
> On MacBook8's (2015) there appears to be no memory resource for the
> SPI master device. Returning an error here in this case then leads to
> the acpi device being ignored completely instead of just the handler
> being skipped.

What's the problem if we prevent creation of the SPI master device? How
does user see the issue? It is not like the SPI driver could use the
device anyway.

Just trying to understand why we would want to change the behaviour.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-07 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04 23:46 [PATCH] ACPI / LPSS: Don't abort acpi scan on missing mem resource Ronald Tschalär
2017-08-07 10:47 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2017-08-08  3:14   ` Life is hard, and then you die
2017-08-08 10:13     ` Mika Westerberg

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