From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Menon Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:43:03 -0500 Message-ID: <5450EEE7.8070801@ti.com> References: <20141027200008.GR2560@atomide.com> <20141027230138.GB7805@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20141028221243.GU2542@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:43256 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932746AbaJ2Nnn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:43:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20141028221243.GU2542@atomide.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren , Aaro Koskinen Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 10/28/2014 05:12 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Aaro Koskinen [141027 16:03]: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:00:09PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: >>> + >>> + if (!of_have_populated_dt()) >>> + pr_warn("WARNING: legacy booting deprecated, please update to boot with .dts\n"); >>> + >> >> Maybe use WARN so that the warning is more verbose and kernel gets tainted? > > Well I was hoping to avoid annoying people with the trace. > But can do that if people prefer that, what do others think? > WARN is better and eye catchy. Also, could we add information on when the support will be removed since we call it deprecated? -- Regards, Nishanth Menon