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

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?

I erred on the side of ensuring the reason for tainting doesn't go
unnoticed when I added that. But I don't think the logging level was
ever discussed, it's just what I thought best at the time. I don't think
I care as long as it stays below debug level.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center