linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl/acpi: fix null dereference on probe for missing ACPI

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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:32:27 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        alison.schofield@...el.com, vishal.l.verma@...el.com,
        ira.weiny@...el.com, bwidawsk@...nel.org, a.manzanares@...sung.com,
        linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl/acpi: fix null dereference on probe for missing
 ACPI_COMPANION()

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Dan Williams wrote:

>This will end up failing the unit tests because those want to have a
>clean kernel log from a "Call Trace" perspective. So either
>dev_warn_once() or just live with the noise since the message is more
>for awareness in production environments and test environments can
>ignore it.

Yeah I quickly realized that dev_warn_once() is what I wanted. I'll send
a v2.