From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:11:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802111117.10a73b89@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108020249560.18935@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
> 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.
And what did the users do - they complained to the distribution.
> 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().
Perhaps the right way to do it would be to file the bugzillas in the key
distros instead
Actually this raises a more interesting question - would it make sense to
have a moderated notification list for poking all the distributions about
things like old API expiry >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 10:08 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 [this message]
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
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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