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On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:44:40PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> But no, a WARN() might not be that nice as it usually is never seen by
> embedded developers...

They're probably about as relaible as build warning; spewing over the
serial console is pretty visible if yu're using one.