Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: move pat warn and replace WARN() with pr_warn()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> wrote:
> > If we really wanted to we could consider arch_phys_wc_add()
> 
> I mean adding a __arch_phys_wc_add() which does not check for pat_enabled().
> 
> > and
> > deal with that this will not check for pat_enabled() and forces MTRR...
> > I think Andy Luto won't like that very much though ? I at least don't
> > like it since we did all this work to finally leave only 1 piece of
> > code with direct MTRR access... Seems a bit sad. Since ipath will
> > be removed we'd have only ivtv driver using this API, I am not sure if
> > its worth it.
> 
> Since ipath is going away soon we'd just have one driver with the icky
> #ifdef code. I'd rather see that and then require semantics / grammer
> rules to require ioremap_wc() when used with arch_phys_wc_add(). I don't think 
> ivtv is worth to consider breaking the semantics and requirements.

Ok, let's keep your original approach with the warning then.

Thanks,

	Ingo