linux-kernel - Re: pinctrl_cherryview: massive error messages (handle_bad

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:26:48 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Christian Steiner <christian.steiner@...look.de>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pinctrl_cherryview: massive error messages (handle_bad_irq)

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> It is possible to detect the BIOS version using DMI strings and issue a
> warning in the driver, if that's what you mean, but currently we don't
> do that.

I was more thinking about detecting the old BIOS and if that
is present, mask off the interrupts on the resume path or something,
as it is probably a bigger problem to see the warnings than to
loose these settings.

Possibly also add a warning at probe() like you describe.

Yours,
Linus Walleij