Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:36:47 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | 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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* Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
> 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...
Absolutely - they are a regression.
Thanks,
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