[PATCH 1/3] [RFC] Print a device-tree message at KERN_WARNING level

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 02:45:38 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:31:40PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> You should only see this if you are running on a machine that has an
>> OpenFirmware style device tree and CONFIG_OF and
>> CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE are set.  Given the other patches in your set,
>> I don't think you are running on a PowerPC machine.  Unless you have
>> an OLPC, then your config is just adding bloat.  (And if you do have
>> an OLPC, that would be odd anyway.)
>>
>> On machines where this is supposed to be used, it likely is an error.
>>
>> That being said, you can send this patch to the devicetree-discuss
>> mailing list on list.ozlabs.org for further feedback.
>>
>
> The OLPC config options seem to have mutated, but at any rate, if people
> are (still) running Fedora on OLPC, then we need to continue with this.

Paul didn't really give any indication what kernel he was running or
what config he was using.  I see the latest rawhide kernel has those
options set because of selects done on CONFIG_OLPC.  That's somewhat
unfortunate.  Still, devicetree-discuss would be a better place to
send this.

josh


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