Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754971Ab0FSIk4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:40:56 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:50765 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143Ab0FSIkz (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:40:55 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Prarit Bhargava Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dzickus@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag References: <20100617134654.22523.39845.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:40:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100617134654.22523.39845.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> (Prarit Bhargava's message of "Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:54:45 -0400") Message-ID: <87ocf7o1nu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 20 Prarit Bhargava writes: nt\n"); > + if (flag == TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED) > + printk(KERN_CRIT "WARNING: This system's hardware is " > + "unsupported.\n"); The problem with such a message in mainline is that it would imply that other hardware is actually 'supported' Which is not really true in most cases. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/