1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
index 24418932612e..a041689e5701 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ static int create_pnp_modalias(struct acpi_device *acpi_dev, char *modalias,
         int count;
         struct acpi_hardware_id *id;
 
+        /* Avoid unnecessarily loading modules for non present devices. */
+        if (!acpi_device_is_present(acpi_dev))
+                return 0;
+
         /*
          * Since we skip ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID from the modalias below, 0 should
          * be returned if ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID is the only ACPI/PNP ID in the