[igt-dev] [PATCH] [CI] kernel: Downgrade warning for unsafe parameters

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 17:18:42 UTC 2018


We make use of unsafe kernel parameters in igt, which generates a
warning and taints the kernel. The warning is unhelpful as we then need
to filter it out again, so kill it at source.

Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 kernel/params.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index cc9108c2a1fd..ce89f757e6da 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ bool parameq(const char *a, const char *b)
 static void param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
 	if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE) {
-		pr_warn("Setting dangerous option %s - tainting kernel\n",
-			kp->name);
+		pr_notice("Setting dangerous option %s - tainting kernel\n",
+			  kp->name);
 		add_taint(TAINT_USER, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.16.1



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