linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.13 00/40] 3.13.4-stable review

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:20:13 -0700
From:	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"shuahkhan@...il.com" <shuahkhan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.13 00/40] 3.13.4-stable review

On 02/19/2014 05:36 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 05:16:22PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>
>> On Intel systems, there are no dmesg regressions: emerg, crit,
>> alert, err are clean. No regressions in warn.
>
>> On AMD systems, the following new error messages - suspect is to
>> drivers/regulator/core.c - patch
>
>> 3.13.4 - amd:
>>> sdhci-pci 0000:02:00.1: dummy supplies not allowed
>>> sdhci-pci 0000:02:00.1: dummy supplies not allowed
>> drivers/regulator/core.c - patch
>
> This is nothing to do with AMD or Intel, it's to do with if your system
> has a sdhci-pci device in it.  This shouldn't result in a change in
> actual behaviour, it's just a warning caused by the fact that we now do
> provide dummies for other devices.
>

Right. I think this message should be a warning instead of an error. 
Error is too alarming, unless there is a good reason for it to be an error.

-- Shuah

-- 
Shuah Khan
Senior Linux Kernel Developer - Open Source Group
Samsung Research America(Silicon Valley)
shuah.kh@...sung.com | (970) 672-0658
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