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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:39:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: processor: Provide empty stub of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check()
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Michal Wilczynski <michal.wilczynski@intel.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 21, 2023 3:09:04 PM CEST Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 13:04, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Commit 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of
> > > acpi_processor.c") added acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() that is
> > > only defined for x86 and is unlikely to be defined for any other
> > > architectures, so put it under #ifdef CONFIG_X86 and provide
> > > an empty stub implementation of it for the other cases.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c7a05a44-c0be-46c2-a21d-b242524d482b@roeck-us.net
> > > Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=remove-ia64&id=a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1
> > > Fixes: 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c")
> > > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > Reported-by: Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > This is kind of orthogonal to
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=remove-ia64&id=a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1
> > >
> > > because if any architectures other than x86 and ia64 decide to use the
> > > processor _OSC, they will see the reported build error.
> > >
> >
> > You mean when other arches #define CONFIG_ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC too, right?
> >
> > In any case, this is going to conflict with my change, which is
> > already in linux-next (you were cc'ed on the PR to asm-generic). What
> > do you propose here?
>
> IIUC, the conflict is that the empty stub will be defined twice if this is
> applied before removing ia64.
>
> But if it is applied on top of the ia64 removal, all should be fine, so that's
> what I would do (and tell the -stable people to ignore it).

And ia64 is gone now, so applied.