https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198167
--- Comment #35 from westerj ([email protected]) --- Rather than squelching the logging at boot time, should we just note it. How should the boot process identity something that's not implemented? Saying it's broken seems too judgemental. On Jan 11, 2018 2:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198167 > > --- Comment #34 from Hans de Goede ([email protected]) --- > (In reply to Marcin Kurek from comment #33) > > (In reply to Erik Schmauss from comment #32) > > > It's missing in the firmware. The best thing to do is to contact > firmware > > > vendors and proceed from there. > > > > This wont work for Dell. Same (or similar) errors on Precision 5510 (and > a > > few more as they use a loot of methods and fields which are undefined > > anywhere) More background info: > > > > - http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/ > 4613/t/20010662 > > The errors mentioned here is actually a different set of errors and have > been > around for a long time. > > I've just re-opened bug 109511 for these and attached a patch to lower the > loglevel of errors while loading the extra ACPI tables from error to > warning, > which should fix the original set of errors showing on the console during > boot. > > > ======== > > ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNKA > > (20170728/dspkginit-381) > > ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNKB > > (20170728/dspkginit-381) > > ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNKC > > (20170728/dspkginit-381) > > ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNKD > > (20170728/dspkginit-381) > > ======== > > This new set however is not affected by the patch I've attach to bug > 109511. > But I do believe that we should fix it in the same manner, of the extra > check > introduced in 4.14 which prints these messages triggers on a lot of > machines > and there is nothing on the kernel side we can do to fix this, then these > messages really should be logged with a log-level of warning, not error. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
