From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754448Ab0FVQig (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:38:36 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:37462 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751523Ab0FVQif (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:38:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:38:17 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cox Cc: Don Zickus , Andrew Morton , Prarit Bhargava , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag Message-ID: <20100622163817.GE20668@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100617134654.22523.39845.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> <20100617091322.b7d21473.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4C1A7D61.8010900@redhat.com> <20100621122145.76ebd7ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100621194559.GI3217@redhat.com> <20100621130008.d3dc01a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100622153457.GA5381@redhat.com> <20100622164835.4ddb9432@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100622164835.4ddb9432@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:48:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > + printk(KERN_CRIT "UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: %s\n", msg); > > + WARN_TAINT(1, TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED, > > + "Your hardware is unsupported. Please do not report " > > + "bugs, panics, oopses, etc., on this hardware.\n"); > > And as already pointed out it's not unsupported hardware even in the case > you described It's hardware that isn't supported by the vendor. How is it not unsupported hardware in that context? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org