On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:41:20PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:23:48PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Nope, well the driver requires huge amounts of work to work with PAT, > > that work will likely never be done, so hence the warning. Its our > > compromise as only 2 drivers will live on Linux like this and they are > > both old and rare. > > Hmm, so wasn't the possibility discussed to fail loading It will fail load. > instead and > issue a single-line pr_warn() when PAT is enabled? During review no one opposed the idea of having the warn as its a load thing, not a compile thing, and a user that does not get their driver loaded should know why, otherwise its not clear. > Those big WARN() splats will only confuse people... We can certainly replace the WARN() with pr_warn(), I don't see how its confusing though as its a run time real issue. Either way whatever you recommend is fine by me. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in
