Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] perf/x86/intel: make error messages less confusing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 08:07:32AM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> On a system with X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON disabled
> and with a model not known by family PMU drivers,
> user gets a kernel message log like the following:
> [ 0.100114] Performance Events: unsupported p6 CPU model 85 no PMU driver, software events only.
> 
> The "unsupported .. CPU" part may be confusing for some
> users leading to wrong understanding that the kernel
> does not support the CPU model.

Send them back to first grade, such that they might learn to read?