[PATCH 3/3] [RFC] Print a IOAPIC message at KERN_WARNING level

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Thu Feb 3 22:08:17 UTC 2011


For messages like
    ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 13

KERN_WARNING seems to be more appropriate than KERN_ERR. (Main benefit
of the KERN_WARNING level is that Fedora's plymouth bootsplash should
now hide them.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 697dc34..72f91be 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -4009,7 +4009,7 @@ int mp_find_ioapic(u32 gsi)
 			return i;
 	}
 
-	printk(KERN_ERR "ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI %d\n", gsi);
+	printk(KERN_WARNING "ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI %d\n", gsi);
 	return -1;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.4





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