On Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:30:20 +0000 Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> > > loongarch, mips, parisc, riscv and sh all print a warning if > register_cpu() returns an error. Architectures that use > GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES call panic() instead. > > Errors in this path indicate something is wrong with the firmware > description of the platform, but the kernel is able to keep running. > > Downgrade this to a warning to make it easier to debug this issue. > > This will allow architectures that switching over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES > to drop their warning, but keep the existing behaviour. > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I guess there may be paths later that were never exposed because of this panic, but any such should be fixed rather than relying on this big hammer. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
