From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
LKP <lkp@01.org>
Subject: Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init()
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150621204120.GA11833@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150621202348.GP11147@wotan.suse.de>
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:23:48PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Nope, well the driver requires huge amounts of work to work with PAT,
> that work will likely never be done, so hence the warning. Its our
> compromise as only 2 drivers will live on Linux like this and they are
> both old and rare.
Hmm, so wasn't the possibility discussed to fail loading instead and
issue a single-line pr_warn() when PAT is enabled? Those big WARN()
splats will only confuse people...
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Boris.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-20 7:17 [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init() Fengguang Wu
2015-06-20 11:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-21 20:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-21 20:41 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-06-22 1:01 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-22 7:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-22 17:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-22 6:36 ` Ingo Molnar
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