linux-kernel - Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:41:20 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Cc:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, LKP <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv]  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
 drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c:1270 ivtvfb_init()

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:23:48PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Nope, well the driver requires huge amounts of work to work with PAT,
> that work will likely never be done, so hence the warning. Its our
> compromise as only 2 drivers will live on Linux like this and they are
> both old and rare.

Hmm, so wasn't the possibility discussed to fail loading instead and
issue a single-line pr_warn() when PAT is enabled? Those big WARN()
splats will only confuse people...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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