diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
index 8ba1464efd112a8f89a48eabbf7fd343c87ab3b6..1b734eb7c0c085112a06f92bc0b4a37532d01aaf 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
@@ -575,6 +575,13 @@ acpi_status acpi_ex_unload_table(union acpi_operand_object *ddb_handle)
 
 	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ex_unload_table);
 
+	/*
+	 * Temporarily emit a warning so that the ASL for the machine can be
+	 * hopefully obtained. This is to say that the Unload() operator is
+	 * extremely rare if not completely unused.
+	 */
+	ACPI_WARNING((AE_INFO, "Received request to unload an ACPI table"));
+
 	/*
 	 * Validate the handle
 	 * Although the handle is partially validated in acpi_ex_reconfiguration()