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

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Oct 27 07:19:41 PDT 2025


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).

Thanks,
Punit

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251024123125.1081612-1-punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com/

 arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
index 7aca29e1d30b..2fba72d51d71 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ void __init acpi_boot_table_init(void)
 		 */
 		ret = acpi_parse_spcr(earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable,
 			!param_acpi_nospcr);
-		if (!ret || param_acpi_nospcr || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_SPCR_TABLE))
+		if (ret < 0 || param_acpi_nospcr || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_SPCR_TABLE))
 			pr_info("Use ACPI SPCR as default console: No\n");
 		else
 			pr_info("Use ACPI SPCR as default console: Yes\n");
-- 
2.34.1




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