From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752075AbbEDP3i (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 11:29:38 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56964 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751232AbbEDP3b (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 11:29:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 17:29:17 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, plagnioj@jcrosoft.com, tomi.valkeinen@ti.com, daniel.vetter@intel.com, airlied@linux.ie, dledford@redhat.com, awalls@md.metrocast.net, syrjala@sci.fi, luto@amacapital.net, mst@redhat.com, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Juergen Gross , Daniel Vetter , Dave Airlie , Bjorn Helgaas , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] arch/x86/mm/pat: export pat_enabled() Message-ID: <20150504152917.GH4096@pd.tnic> References: <1430425520-22275-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1430425520-22275-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430425520-22275-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:25:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > Two Linux device drivers cannot work with PAT and the work > required to make them work is significant. There is not > enough motivation to convert these drivers over to use > PAT properly, the compromise reached is to let drivers > that cannot be ported to PAT check if PAT was enabled > and if so fail on probe with a recommendation to boot > with the "nopat" kernel parameter. > > Cc: Andy Walls > Cc: Doug Ledford > Cc: Andy Lutomirski > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Juergen Gross > Cc: Daniel Vetter > Cc: Dave Airlie > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas > Cc: Borislav Petkov > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Applied, thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --