From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:11:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269429075.2500.5.camel@concordia> (raw)
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On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
> are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the
> kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag. To allow for
> this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint
> flag as argument.
..
> The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be
> reviewed by architecture maintainers.
I'm not one of them, but this at least builds on powerpc FWIW.
cheers
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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:11:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269429075.2500.5.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269126340.18314.115.camel@localhost>
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On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
> are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the
> kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag. To allow for
> this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint
> flag as argument.
..
> The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be
> reviewed by architecture maintainers.
I'm not one of them, but this at least builds on powerpc FWIW.
cheers
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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:11:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269429075.2500.5.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269126340.18314.115.camel@localhost>
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On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> WARN() is used in some places to report firmware or hardware bugs that
> are then worked-around. These bugs do not affect the stability of the
> kernel and should not set the usual TAINT_WARN flag. To allow for
> this, add WARN_TAINT() and WARN_TAINT_ONCE() macros that take a taint
> flag as argument.
..
> The architecture-specific changes here are untested and need to be
> reviewed by architecture maintainers.
I'm not one of them, but this at least builds on powerpc FWIW.
cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-20 23:01 [PATCH 1/4] pci/dmar: Combine the BIOS DMAR table warning messages Ben Hutchings
2010-03-20 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Ben Hutchings
2010-03-20 23:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-20 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Andi Kleen
2010-03-21 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-21 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-21 19:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 19:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 19:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 2:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 2:47 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 2:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 13:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 7:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Paul Mundt
2010-03-23 7:45 ` Paul Mundt
2010-03-23 7:45 ` Paul Mundt
2010-03-23 13:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 13:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-23 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Ben Hutchings
2010-03-24 11:11 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2010-03-24 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed from TAINT_WARN Michael Ellerman
2010-03-24 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] panic: Allow taint flag for warnings to be changed Michael Ellerman
2010-03-20 23:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 1:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-20 23:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] pci/dmar: Tone down warnings about invalid BIOS DMAR tables Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 8:43 ` David Woodhouse
2010-03-21 14:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-21 15:57 ` David Woodhouse
2010-03-23 2:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] pci/dmar: Combine the BIOS DMAR table warning messages Andrew Morton
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