Re: [PATCH] EDAC/dmc520: Don't print an error for each unconfigured interrupt line

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 12:28:18 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:28:16AM -0600, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> KERN_ERR messages trip log scanners and cause concern that the
> kernel/hardware is not configured or working correctly. They also add a
> little big of ongoing stress into kernel maintainer's lives, as we
> prepare and test kernel updates, since they show up as red text in
> journalctl output that we have to think about regularly. Multiple
> KERN_ERR messages, 8 in this case, can also be considered a little worse
> than a single error message.

It sounds to me like you wanna read

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

first.

> I feel like this trivial fix is worth taking into stable rather than
> suppressing these errors (mentally and in log scanners) for years.

Years?

In any case, sorry, no, I don't consider this stable material.

Thx.

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