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    ACPI / CPPC: do not require the _PSD method · 4c4cdc4c
    Al Stone authored
    According to the ACPI 6.3 specification, the _PSD method is optional
    when using CPPC.  The underlying assumption is that each CPU can change
    frequency independently from all other CPUs; _PSD is provided to tell
    the OS that some processors can NOT do that.
    
    However, the acpi_get_psd() function returns ENODEV if there is no _PSD
    method present, or an ACPI error status if an error occurs when evaluating
    _PSD, if present.  This makes _PSD mandatory when using CPPC, in violation
    of the specification, and only on Linux.
    
    This has forced some firmware writers to provide a dummy _PSD, even though
    it is irrelevant, but only because Linux requires it; other OSPMs follow
    the spec.  We really do not want to have OS specific ACPI tables, though.
    
    So, correct acpi_get_psd() so that it does not return an error if there
    is no _PSD method present, but does return a failure when the method can
    not be executed properly.  This allows _PSD to be optional as it should
    be.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Stone <ahs3@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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