From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754322AbbFUUli (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:41:38 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55062 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025AbbFUUlb (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:41:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:41:20 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Fengguang Wu , Ingo Molnar , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, LKP Subject: Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init() Message-ID: <20150621204120.GA11833@pd.tnic> References: <20150620071756.GA10923@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> <20150620110844.GA30725@pd.tnic> <20150621202348.GP11147@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150621202348.GP11147@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/