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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/ec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/ec.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c index 75c7db8b156a..7855bbf752b1 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -2033,7 +2033,7 @@ void __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void) goto out; } - if (!strstarts(ecdt_ptr->id, "\\")) { + if (!strlen(ecdt_ptr->id)) { /* * The ECDT table on some MSI notebooks contains invalid data, together * with an empty ID string (""). @@ -2042,9 +2042,13 @@ void __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void) * a "fully qualified reference to the (...) embedded controller device", * so this string always has to start with a backslash. * - * By verifying this we can avoid such faulty ECDT tables in a safe way. + * However some ThinkBook machines have a ECDT table with a valid EC + * description but an invalid ID string ("_SB.PC00.LPCB.EC0"). + * + * Because of this we only check if the ID string is empty in order to + * avoid the obvious cases. */ - pr_err(FW_BUG "Ignoring ECDT due to invalid ID string \"%s\"\n", ecdt_ptr->id); + pr_err(FW_BUG "Ignoring ECDT due to empty ID string\n"); goto out; } |