netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ioat/dca: Update DCA BIOS workarounds to use TAINT_FIRMWARE

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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:56:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	gospo@...hat.com, david.woodhouse@...el.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ioat/dca: Update DCA BIOS workarounds to use
 TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:01:59 -0700

> This patch is meant to be a follow-up for a patch originally submitted under
> the title "ioat: Do not enable DCA if tag map is invalid".  It was brought to
> my attention that the preferred approach for BIOS workarounds is to set the
> taint flag for TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND for systems that require BIOS
> workarounds.
> 
> This change makes it so that the DCA workarounds for broken BIOSes will now
> use WARN_TAINT_ONCE(1, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, ...) instead of just
> printing a message via dev_err.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>

Applied, thanks Alex.
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