[PATCH] Cleanup misleading IA64 ACPI error message

[PATCH] Cleanup misleading IA64 ACPI error message

[George Beshers]

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On Altix (sn2) machines the "Error parsing MADT" message is
misleading because the lack of IOSAPIC entries is expected.

Since I am sure someone will ask, I have been told that
the chance of this changing anytime soon is close to nil.

Signed-off-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>

---
 acpi.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -purN linux-2.6.23/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c linux-2.6.23.b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
--- linux-2.6.23/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c	2007-10-09 16:31:38.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.23.b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c	2007-10-09 21:43:29.283569798 -0400
@@ -678,9 +678,14 @@ int __init acpi_boot_init(void)
 	/* I/O APIC */
 
 	if (acpi_table_parse_madt
-	    (ACPI_MADT_TYPE_IO_SAPIC, acpi_parse_iosapic, NR_IOSAPICS) < 1)
-		printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
-		       "Error parsing MADT - no IOSAPIC entries\n");
+	    (ACPI_MADT_TYPE_IO_SAPIC, acpi_parse_iosapic, NR_IOSAPICS) < 1) {
+		if (ia64_platform_is("sn2"))
+			printk(KERN_NOTICE
+			       "SGI/SN machines do not have IOSAPIC entries\n");
+		else
+			printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
+			       "Error parsing MADT - no IOSAPIC entries\n");
+	}
 
 	/* System-Level Interrupt Routing */