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From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ACPI / OSL: Allow PCI to be disabled
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:22:25 -0500
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On 12/11/2018 5:16 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> AFAIK, ACPI spec says that AML code running on non-existing op-regions to be
>> discarded last time I checked.
> I guess you mean "disregarded"?
> 

I have seen Linux complain about reads/writes to non-existing I2C opregions
before as a read/write failure for every single AML transaction. I was under the
impression that we didn't care.

> So the spec appears to expect the OS to silently ignore the failures
> in those cases, so why should an error be returned?
> 

I can certainly return success for this case when CONFIG_PCI is not present.

>> I know Linux is noisy about these.