Re: [PATCH v1] xen: ACPI: Get rid of ACPICA message printing

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/1/21 9:11 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 2:49 AM Boris Ostrovsky
> <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/24/21 1:47 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() macro is used in a few places in
>>> xen-acpi-cpuhotplug.c and xen-acpi-memhotplug.c for printing debug
>>> messages, but that is questionable, because that macro belongs to
>>> ACPICA and it should not be used elsewhere.  In addition,
>>> ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() requires special enabling to allow it to actually
>>> print the message and the _COMPONENT symbol generally needed for
>>> that is not defined in any of the files in question.
>>>
>>> For this reason, replace all of the ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() instances in
>>> the Xen code with acpi_handle_debug() (with the additional benefit
>>> that the source object can be identified more easily after this
>>> change) and drop the ACPI_MODULE_NAME() definitions that are only
>>> used by the ACPICA message printing macros from that code.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/xen/xen-acpi-cpuhotplug.c |   12 +++++-------
>>>  drivers/xen/xen-acpi-memhotplug.c |   16 +++++++---------
>>
>> As I was building with this patch I (re-)discovered that since 2013 it 
>> depends on BROKEN (commit 76fc253723add). Despite commit message there 
>> saying that it's a temporary patch it seems to me by now that it's more than 
>> that.
>>
>>
>> And clearly noone tried to build these files since at least 2015 because 
>> memhotplug file doesn't compile due to commit cfafae940381207.
>>
>>
>> While this is easily fixable the question is whether we want to keep these 
>> files. Obviously noone cares about this functionality.
> Well, I would be for dropping them.
>
> Do you want me to send a patch to do that?


Yes, if you don't mind (but let's give this a few days for people to have a 
chance to comment).


-boris