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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
index 5912d30020c7..59dd07c94f12 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
@@ -3474,7 +3474,13 @@ static int acpi_nfit_add(struct acpi_device *adev)
status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_NFIT, 0, &tbl);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
- /* This is ok, we could have an nvdimm hotplugged later */
+ /* The NVDIMM root device allows OS to trigger enumeration of
+ * NVDIMMs through NFIT at boot time and re-enumeration at
+ * root level via the _FIT method during runtime.
+ * This is ok to return 0 here, we could have an nvdimm
+ * hotplugged later and evaluate _FIT method which returns
+ * data in the format of a series of NFIT Structures.
+ */
dev_dbg(dev, "failed to find NFIT at startup\n");
return 0;
}