Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:14:03 +0100 | | From | Djalal Harouni <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mce: fix warning messages about static struct mce_device |
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 02:40:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > When suspending, there was a large list of warnings going something like: Not only suspend, during poweroff we'll also see these annoying warnings as reported here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/10/504
> Device 'machinecheck1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed > > This patch turns the static mce_devices into dynamically allocated, and > properly frees them when they are removed from the system. It solves > the warning messages on my laptop here. > > Reported-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > --- > > Linus, this should fix the warnings on your laptop, it does on mine. Patch tested.
Thanks, this also fixed the warnings for my KVM/Qemu guests.
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