Re: [PATCH] Disable useless bootmem warning

From: Ben Collins
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 12:07:07 EST


> I've never seen a bug uncovered by this warning too. I considered to disable it
> by passing a special array of "ok to reserve twice" regions, but on second thought
> it is just best to remove it completely. Reserving things twice is not usually
> an error.

I have. When I was working to get sparc64 booting from alternate memory
(other than 0x0 physical), those messages helped me a lot.

Maybe make it ifdef'd by CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM (which is an option that I
know sparc and sparc64 already have).

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