[PATCH -next 1/2] ACPI: Enable ACPI_PROCESSOR for RISC-V

[Andrew Jones]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:16:06PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Also, interestingly, it looks like this ancient line
> >
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR)    += processor.o
> >
> > in drivers/acpi/Makefile should be removed,
> 
> No
> 
> > since there's no drivers/acpi/processor.c file.
> 
> Correct, but ..
> 
> > I guess the make process silently filters object files which don't have
> > corresponding source files?
> 
> May be, but I doubt if that is the case here.
> 
> processor.o is just aggregation of all processor_*.o and this will be
> the processor.ko when built as a module.

Oh, I see. I had tried looking for a processor.o after building, to see if
it was something like that, but it still didn't appear. It didn't occur to
me to also try ACPI_PROCESSOR as a module.

I'll go put my head in some sand now.

Thanks,
drew