From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753891AbYIXXTa (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:19:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752082AbYIXXTW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:19:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55852 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbYIXXTW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:19:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:18:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Frans Pop cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , tglx@tglx.de, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008 In-Reply-To: <200809250112.40661.elendil@planet.nl> Message-ID: References: <20080916092206.6342c498@infradead.org> <200809250036.47277.elendil@planet.nl> <200809250112.40661.elendil@planet.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > If no other solution is found soon, would a patch to just skip the sysctl > table check for this particular case be acceptable? Well, it would be even _more_ acceptable to have a new Kconfig option that just disables the insane parport registrations. Them you could turn off the /proc files, and if it turns out you don't have anything that uses it, you can avoid the warning by actually having a smaller kernel with less crap, rather than adding more crap to hide the crap. Wouldn't that be nicer? It would have to be a Kconfig option since we don't _know_ that it's not used by anything.. Linus