From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: 'Aristeu Rozanski' <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"'linux-edac@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
'Mauro Carvalho Chehab' <mchehab@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC: skx_common: downgrade message importance on missing PCI device
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:17:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200106161732.GF12238@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200106151242.vkdiiwhubmkx5osh@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 10:12:42AM -0500, 'Aristeu Rozanski' wrote:
> The other option I can think about is just allowing the module to load
> in this situation: the CPU is present but you have no memory controller
> PCI devices present. Some drivers will allow loading without having a
> device present without errors. It's not clean as having to come up with
> something modutils can pick up as hint to not try to load more than once.
Yeah, but having a driver loaded when there's no hw to drive is also not
pretty.
> Or could just downgrade this specific message since it's a very common
> case and let the more unusual situations report more than once.
Yap, we did a similar thing for adm64_edac:
7fdfee926be7 ("EDAC/amd64: Get rid of the ECC disabled long message")
but instead of downgrading prio we actually went and killed it directly.
:-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-06 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 21:23 [PATCH] EDAC: skx_common: downgrade message importance on missing PCI device Aristeu Rozanski
2019-12-09 21:52 ` Luck, Tony
2019-12-10 0:02 ` Luck, Tony
2019-12-10 9:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-06 15:12 ` 'Aristeu Rozanski'
2020-01-06 16:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-01-06 16:20 ` 'Aristeu Rozanski'
2020-01-06 16:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-07 15:51 ` 'Aristeu Rozanski'
2020-01-07 16:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-07 21:43 ` Luck, Tony
2020-01-08 14:54 ` 'Aristeu Rozanski'
2019-12-10 14:18 ` 'Aristeu Rozanski'
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