ACPI issues on boot

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I have nixos on my laptop. Everything seems to work fine, but I notice acpi errors on every boot:

 9:41:47 PM kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20200925/psobject-220)
 9:41:47 PM kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20200925/psobject-220)
 9:41:47 PM kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC.LHKF], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20200925/dswload2-326)

Does anyone know if this is this something that needs to be dealt with? I tried researching that specific warning message and could not find much.

I am already using my laptop’s hardware configuration from nixos-hardware and therefore have redestributable firmware enabled.

For what it’s worth, I also use nixOS on my desktop and don’t see such messages.

Any help is appreciated, I can’t find anyone who experienced this with NixOS.

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I think I’ve seen errors like that on any machine with any distro I’ve ever used.
The other end of ACPI is implemented by firmware, so it’s not like anything can be done about that anyways.

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