From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754867AbYHGSLZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752833AbYHGSLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:16 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:45245 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751981AbYHGSLP (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=lNUbpqzyUrKJLqMTwCkQuKFEkTUrvxn9xev/Bxt0Gsz5IBYYhy5Iw7xinAUY8btNGb P9NputAl4SLDZfEhOFRk3di+kAFY30284vs7K0QTfHEPVZN+RrwBZwbKsm0xarmIQR+B 65cjaB4xdAj+iX35p8o+yWo690V6BByHP18GA= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:09 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, bzolnier@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30 Message-ID: <20080807140357.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20080730170635.f737ffe9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080731104437.5e5669bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080731141302.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <200807312048.57575.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080731145023.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080731151625.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080731194207.GA12233@anvil.corenet.prv> <20080731131056.eecc4826.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080731131056.eecc4826.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:10:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > If that works then great. But I think the printk could be improved. > Please provide sufficient information so that users (not programmers) > can go off and fix things up without needing to email kernel developers. > > One suitable approach would be > > printk("see http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/read-this.txt") > Ok, I made a small page here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html If you think this is sufficient I'd like to put the patch with the warning in 2.6.27 so people and distributions could start updarting affected programs. -- Dmitry