Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ACPI: Improve SPCR handling and messaging on SPCR-less systems

[Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>]

On 2025/6/20 21:13, Li Chen wrote:
> From: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
> This small series improves the kernel behavior and output when the ACPI SPCR
> table is not present or not supported.
> 
> Currently, even on systems that completely lack an SPCR table, the kernel prints:
> "Use ACPI SPCR as default console: Yes"
> 
> This may mislead users into thinking an SPCR table exists
> when in fact there is no such table at all. This series addresses this in two steps:
> 
> Patch 1 ensures that acpi_parse_spcr() returns -ENODEV if CONFIG_ACPI_SPCR_TABLE is disabled.
> 
> Patch 2 updates arm64 acpi_boot_table_init() to only print the Yes
> if acpi_parse_spcr() succeeds.
> 
> This results in cleaner and more accurate boot logs on ARM64.
> 
> Tested on both SPCR-enabled and SPCR-less qemu-system arm64 virt platform. [1]
> 
> Changelog:
> v2: refine the printk message logic as suggested by Hanjun Guo. [2]
> 
> [1]: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20250528105404.457729-1-me@linux.beauty/
> [2]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg5730585.html
> 
> Li Chen (2):
>    ACPI: Return -ENODEV from acpi_parse_spcr() when SPCR support is
>      disabled
>    ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is
>      absent
> 
>   arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 10 +++++++---
>   include/linux/acpi.h     |  2 +-
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This version looks good to me,

Acked-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>

Thanks
Hanjun