On Thursday 12 April 2007 17:14, David Brownell wrote:
> This works around a bug seen in some RTC-related ACPI table entries, and
> tweaks related diagnostics to follow the ACPI convention.
>
> The bug prevents misleading boot-time messages: platforms affected by this
> bug wrongly report they can support alarms up to one year in the future,
> when in fact the longest alarm is just 24 hours. That will surprise anyone
> trying to use those extended alarms.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[email protected]>
> ---
> glue.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- g26.orig/drivers/acpi/glue.c 2007-04-12 10:56:35.000000000 -0700
> +++ g26/drivers/acpi/glue.c 2007-04-12 10:56:35.000000000 -0700
> @@ -316,13 +316,19 @@ static int __init acpi_rtc_init(void)
> rtc_info.wake_on = rtc_wake_on;
> rtc_info.wake_off = rtc_wake_off;
probably worth a comment right here that this clause is a BIOS workaround.
Unclear what value the DBG statement adds, since only somebody
editing this file will ever enable it.
-Len
> + if (acpi_gbl_FADT.month_alarm && !acpi_gbl_FADT.day_alarm) {
> + DBG("bogus FADT month_alarm\n");
> + acpi_gbl_FADT.month_alarm = 0;
> + }
> +
> rtc_info.rtc_day_alarm = acpi_gbl_FADT.day_alarm;
> rtc_info.rtc_mon_alarm = acpi_gbl_FADT.month_alarm;
> rtc_info.rtc_century = acpi_gbl_FADT.century;
>
> /* NOTE: S4_RTC_WAKE is NOT currently useful to Linux */
> if (acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_S4_RTC_WAKE)
> - printk("ACPI: RTC can wake from S4\n");
> + printk(PREFIX "RTC can wake from S4\n");
> +
>
> dev->platform_data = &rtc_info;
>
> @@ -331,7 +337,7 @@ static int __init acpi_rtc_init(void)
>
> put_device(dev);
> } else
> - pr_debug("ACPI: RTC unavailable?\n");
> + DBG("RTC unavailable?\n");
> return 0;
> }
> /* do this between RTC subsys_initcall() and rtc_cmos driver_initcall() */
> -
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