[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: cpufreq-nforce2: probe failures are not errors
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue Mar 10 13:59:56 UTC 2009
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Bug: #332170
>
ACK
> When we cpufreq-nforce2 fails to find the appropriate hardware it
> emits an error to indicate this. However when this driver is built
> into the kernel this probe and fail on all non-nforce2 systems. This
> leads us to see the following error between the BIOS and usplash:
>
> [ 1.446954] cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.
>
> This error is purely informational and should not be at KERN_ERR. Move to
> this to KERN_INFO.
>
> A corresponding fix is already moving upstream and expected to hit 2.6.30.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> index 965ea52..36090cc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int __init nforce2_init(void)
>
> /* detect chipset */
> if (nforce2_detect_chipset()) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.\n");
> + printk(KERN_INFO "cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.\n");
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
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