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

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Feb 26 10:45:47 UTC 2018


Quoting Jani Nikula (2018-02-26 10:42:40)
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is your goal to upstream this or what?

First asking if we see merit in this. If so, I can rewrite the commitmsg
to emphasise that this is a direct result of user behaviour and so
emitting a WARN is over the top. However, the counter argument is that
this sets a kernel taint, so shouldn't it warn as well?
-Chris


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