From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dzickus@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:40:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocf7o1nu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100617134654.22523.39845.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> (Prarit Bhargava's message of "Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:54:45 -0400")
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> writes:
nt\n");
> + if (flag == TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED)
> + printk(KERN_CRIT "WARNING: This system's hardware is "
> + "unsupported.\n");
The problem with such a message in mainline is that it would
imply that other hardware is actually 'supported'
Which is not really true in most cases.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-19 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-17 13:54 Prarit Bhargava
2010-06-17 16:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-17 19:54 ` Prarit Bhargava
2010-06-17 20:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-21 19:21 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-21 19:45 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-21 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-21 20:46 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-22 15:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Don Zickus
2010-06-22 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-22 16:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-22 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-22 17:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-23 3:06 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-23 3:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-23 20:00 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-22 18:58 ` [PATCH v4] " Don Zickus
2010-07-06 20:33 ` Don Zickus
2010-07-06 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-19 8:40 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-19 9:30 ` [PATCH] " Alan Cox
2010-06-21 13:26 ` Don Zickus
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