[PATCH] arm64: acpi: Fix incorrect check for default console message

Hanjun Guo guohanjun at huawei.com
Thu Nov 20 18:40:30 PST 2025


On 2025/10/30 22:21, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 02:19:41PM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> bad3fa2fb920 ("ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when
>> SPCR table is absent") mistakenly assumes acpi_parse_spcr() returning
>> 0 to indicate a failure to parse SPCR and prints a message to the
>> kernel logs accordingly. In reality acpi_parse_spcr() returns 0 on
>> success and -ERRNO on failure.
>>
>> Fix the faulty check to output the correct logging message.
>>
>> Fixes: bad3fa2fb920 ("ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is absent")
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at oss.qualcomm.com>
>> ---
>> Hi,
>>
>> After sending a patch to fix incorrect parsing of SPCR[0], I was still
>> seeing inconsistent logging on arm64. The result is this nugget.
>>
>> Considering the pointless churn - I wondered if it isn't better to
>> drop the message? If others agree, I can send a patch (and revert
>> bad3fa2fb920 while at it).
> 
> I'd be happy dropping the message as it looks pretty useless to me,
> especially given that the current logic is broken.

Fine with me as well, in the acpi_parse_spcr() there is a default
pr_info() for the console information, we can drop it here.

Thanks
Hanjun



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