Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init()

[Borislav Petkov]

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.
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