Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:28:16 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] EDAC/dmc520: Don't print an error for each unconfigured interrupt line |
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:28:16AM -0600, Tyler Hicks wrote: > KERN_ERR messages trip log scanners and cause concern that the > kernel/hardware is not configured or working correctly. They also add a > little big of ongoing stress into kernel maintainer's lives, as we > prepare and test kernel updates, since they show up as red text in > journalctl output that we have to think about regularly. Multiple > KERN_ERR messages, 8 in this case, can also be considered a little worse > than a single error message.
It sounds to me like you wanna read
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
first.
> I feel like this trivial fix is worth taking into stable rather than > suppressing these errors (mentally and in log scanners) for years.
Years?
In any case, sorry, no, I don't consider this stable material.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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