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| author | Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> | 2009-02-04 11:56:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2009-02-24 22:47:31 -0500 |
| commit | 79cc56af9fdbeaa91f50289b932d0959b41f9467 (patch) | |
| tree | ae2f0e9ab28accb1accc047633bd1e5b613173ca /arch | |
| parent | 112124ab0a9f507a0d7fdbb1e1ed2b9a24f8c4ea (diff) | |
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
This is the typical message you get if you plug in a CPU
which is newer than your BIOS. It's annoying seeing this
message for each core.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c index acc06b03194e..c44853fc827a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static int find_psb_table(struct powernow_k8_data *data) * BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide, which is available on * www.amd.com */ - printk(KERN_ERR PFX "BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects\n"); + printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "No PSB or ACPI _PSS objects\n"); return -ENODEV; } @@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol) struct powernow_k8_data *data; cpumask_t oldmask; int rc; + static int print_once; if (!cpu_online(pol->cpu)) return -ENODEV; @@ -1240,11 +1241,19 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol) * an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD. */ if (num_online_cpus() != 1) { - printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "Your BIOS does not provide" - " ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux " - "understands. Please report this to the Linux " - "ACPI maintainers and complain to your BIOS " - "vendor.\n"); + /* + * Replace this one with print_once as soon as such a + * thing gets introduced + */ + if (!print_once) { + WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "Your BIOS " + "does not provide ACPI _PSS objects " + "in a way that Linux understands. " + "Please report this to the Linux ACPI" + " maintainers and complain to your " + "BIOS vendor.\n"); + print_once++; + } kfree(data); return -ENODEV; } |