Re: acpi_wmi noisy without EC

On 2020-11-17 03:00, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> I have started seeing the following on boot since some time:
> 
> acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
> acpi_wmi0: cannot find EC device
> device_attach: acpi_wmi0 attach returned 6
> acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
> acpi_wmi0: cannot find EC device
> device_attach: acpi_wmi0 attach returned 6
> acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
> acpi_wmi0: cannot find EC device
> device_attach: acpi_wmi0 attach returned 6
> acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
> acpi_wmi0: cannot find EC device
> device_attach: acpi_wmi0 attach returned 6
> 
> Likely following this commit:
> 
> commit 708d048ccfdacf6199cc08a56aa05a9c899441fd
> Author: Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf_at_FreeBSD.org>
> Date:   Sat Oct 31 22:19:39 2020 +0000
> 
>     acpi_wmi(4): Add ACPI_PNP_INFO
> 
> While the reason is obvious -- there's no EC in this system (Gigabyte
> X299X AORUS MASTER desktop motherboard), at least searching the
> `acpidump -dt` output doesn't show any PNP0C09 entries -- it certainly
> looks like "something is broken" when first noticed.  I wonder if we
> could/should handle this gracefully -- no EC, do nothing, simply exit?

Following patch should ignore missing EC like Linux does. Could you test 
it?

diff --git a/sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_wmi.c 
b/sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_wmi.c
index 379cfd1705f1..efae96cdcc9a 100644
--- a/sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_wmi.c
+++ b/sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_wmi.c
_at__at_ -246,7 +246,7 _at__at_ acpi_wmi_attach(device_t dev)
  	if ((sc->ec_dev = devclass_get_device(devclass_find("acpi_ec"), 0))
  	    == NULL)
  		device_printf(dev, "cannot find EC device\n");
-	else if (ACPI_FAILURE((status = 
AcpiInstallNotifyHandler(sc->wmi_handle,
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE((status = AcpiInstallNotifyHandler(sc->wmi_handle,
  		    ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY, acpi_wmi_notify_handler, sc))))
  		device_printf(sc->wmi_dev, "couldn't install notify handler - %s\n",
  		    AcpiFormatException(status));
_at__at_ -701,6 +701,8 _at__at_ acpi_wmi_ec_handler(UINT32 function, 
ACPI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS address,
  		return (AE_BAD_PARAMETER);
  	if (address + (width / 8) - 1 > 0xFF)
  		return (AE_BAD_ADDRESS);
+	if (sc->ec_dev == NULL)
+		return (AE_NOT_FOUND);
  	if (function == ACPI_READ)
  		*value = 0;
  	ec_addr = address;



-- 
WBR
Vladimir Kondratyev