Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: baytrail: Do not call WARN_ON for a firmware bug

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> WARN_ON causes a backtrace to get logged which is only useful for
> kernel bugs. For signalling a firmware bug dev_warn(dev, FW_BUG "...")
> should be used.
>
> This fixes users running userspace software to monitor kernel oopses
> getting a false positive bug-report every boot because of the wrong
> use of WARN_ON.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied with Andy's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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