linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:29:26 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kim Naru <kim.naru@....com>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum
 793

On Fri 2014-01-17 14:51:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/17/2014 02:50 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:28:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> Would it make sense to printk() a warning?
> > 
> > No because people come and start bitching about their dmesg containing
> > a warning and whether their hardware is b0rked without even reading the
> > actual words.

Have you checked your dmesg recently? Normal people don't read
it... it is just too much of it.

> Printing a warning is appropriate if we can't actually fix the problem
> in the OS.  If we actually make the problem go away then we have just
> done our job and we can be done with it.

I disagree. Older kernel versions still may have problem, etc.

We normally do print warnings for problems we work around. We want
vendors to fix their hardware, too...

ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT -
0xBDB5FF40/0x00000000BDB64F40, using 32 (20131115/tbfadt-522)
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

								Pavel
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