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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rientjes@google.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:20:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802.042019.719045752884572940.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108020249560.18935@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 02:53:34 -0700 (PDT)

> That's obviously wrong since all of the applications that I've cited 
> that have been fixed to date have been the result of users actually 
> noticing the printk_once() and emailing me directly to pass it along to 
> the appropriate parties.  I've also found other cases where bugzilla 
> entries were created based on that single line warning by users, who in 
> turn get distros and maintainers to convert to the new interface.
> 
> It's quite effective, but there are still some applications that have yet 
> to be reported, hence the reason for anybody actually hitting this new 
> WARN_ONCE().

I completely agree with you.  Printing out some kind of warning does
get the problems fixed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-02 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02  0:52 Andi Kleen
2011-08-02  1:32 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-02  1:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-02  2:22     ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02  9:16       ` Alan Cox
2011-08-02  9:53         ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 10:11           ` Alan Cox
2011-08-02 11:22             ` David Miller
2011-08-02 14:45             ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02 21:50               ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 21:45             ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 22:06               ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02 11:20           ` David Miller [this message]
2011-08-02  2:34 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02  6:07   ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02  9:54     ` [patch] oom: change warning for deprecated oom_adj to avoid WARN_ONCE() David Rientjes
2011-08-03  6:10       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-08-04  6:04         ` David Rientjes
2011-08-04  7:48           ` Borislav Petkov

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