Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:41:20 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init() |
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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.
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