that at every boot of a laptop that apparently doesn't have any IOAPICs. But if there are no IOAPICs it doesn't seem to be an error that none can be found. A solution that gets rid of this message is to directly return if nr_ioapics (still) is zero. (But keep returning -1 in that case, so nothing breaks from this change.) The call chain that generates this error is: pnpacpi_allocated_resource() case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_IRQ: pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource() acpi_get_override_irq() mp_find_ioapic() Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar