On 17 October 2017 at 08:27, Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi Ard,
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:59:37 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Currently, when booting a kernel with DMI support on a platform that has
>> no DMI tables, the following output is emitted into the kernel log:
>>
>> [ 0.128818] DMI not present or invalid.
>> ...
>> [ 1.306659] dmi: Firmware registration failed.
>> ...
>> [ 2.908681] dmi-sysfs: dmi entry is absent.
>>
>> The first one is a pr_info(), but the subsequent ones are pr_err()s that
>> complain about a condition that is not really an error to begin with.
>>
>> So let's clean this up, and give up silently if dma_available is not set.
>
> On the principle I agree, but you'll have to come up with an
> implementation that links successfully:
>
> ERROR: "dmi_available" [drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.ko] undefined!
> scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: recipe for target '__modpost' failed
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> Makefile:1216: recipe for target 'modules' failed
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
Oops. Thanks for spotting that.
> The reason is that dmi_available is not exported. The obvious solution
> is to export it. Or maybe just turn the error message into a debug
> message and assume the only reason it may reasonably happen is because
> dmi isn't available in the first place. If dmi_kobj is missing for any
> other reason then there's a much more important problem to solve anyway.
>
Indeed. dmi_kobj is the first thing that gets created in dmi_init(),
and if that fails you will get a pr_err() anyway.
I will respin.
Thanks,
Ard.
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c | 3 +++
>> drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 6 ++----
>> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
>> index d5de6ee8466d..3a264cbbb5a6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
>> @@ -651,6 +651,9 @@ static int __init dmi_sysfs_init(void)
>> int error;
>> int val;
>>
>> + if (!dmi_available)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> if (!dmi_kobj) {
>> pr_err("dmi-sysfs: dmi entry is absent.\n");
>> error = -ENODATA;
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
>> index 783041964439..17a7425063c2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
>> @@ -715,10 +715,8 @@ static int __init dmi_init(void)
>> u8 *dmi_table;
>> int ret = -ENOMEM;
>>
>> - if (!dmi_available) {
>> - ret = -ENODATA;
>> - goto err;
>> - }
>> + if (!dmi_available)
>> + return 0;
>>
>> /*
>> * Set up dmi directory at /sys/firmware/dmi. This entry should stay
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
