linux-kernel - Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, tglx@...x.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Warning/Oops report of the week of September 16th, 2008

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> If no other solution is found soon, would a patch to just skip the sysctl 
> table check for this particular case be acceptable?

Well, it would be even _more_ acceptable to have a new Kconfig option that 
just disables the insane parport registrations.

Them you could turn off the /proc files, and if it turns out you don't 
have anything that uses it, you can avoid the warning by actually having a 
smaller kernel with less crap, rather than adding more crap to hide the 
crap. Wouldn't that be nicer?

It would have to be a Kconfig option since we don't _know_ that it's not 
used by anything..

		Linus
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