[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Wed Nov 26 09:28:57 PST 2014


On Tue 2014-10-28 01:01:38, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:00:09PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > +
> > +	if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> > +		pr_warn("WARNING: legacy booting deprecated, please update to boot with .dts\n");
> > +
> 
> Maybe use WARN so that the warning is more verbose and kernel gets tainted?

Well.. Pali still has regression where /proc/cpuinfo changes in a way
that breaks existing userspace, when dt is used on N900.

And rmk was less then helpfull...

Should we maybe solve that before adding backtraces to our boot
messages?

									Pavel
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