On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Samuel Ortiz <sa...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > The Generic Event Device (GED) is a hardware-reduced platform device.
No, it is not AFAICS. The spec doesn't say that GED cannot be used on platforms that aren't HW-reduced and if evged.c is going to be built in unconditionally, the kernel will be able to handle GED regardless. > Probing this driver on fixed platforms should fail. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sa...@linux.intel.com> > --- > drivers/acpi/evged.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/evged.c b/drivers/acpi/evged.c > index aba0d0027586..55de4b2d2fee 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/evged.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/evged.c > @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ static int ged_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > struct acpi_ged_device *geddev; > acpi_status acpi_ret; > > + if (!acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware) > + return -ENODEV; > + > geddev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*geddev), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!geddev) > return -ENOMEM; > -- > 2.21.0 >
