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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	nix.or.die@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rjw@sisk.pl, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:05:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812110902450.3340@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081211163548.GA11859@elte.hu>



On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> hm, the warning caught a couple of real bugs already. (one in some cpq 
> driver, another was in some networking driver iirc)

Well, one thing that does irritate me is that it scares people who can't 
do anything about it, and probably _shouldn't_ do anything about it.

I wonder if we should just change the "Warning" message to "Informational" 
or something. Yes, they are often real bugs. But no, they're not 
_automatically_ bugs. Almost all the time when a warning triggers, it's 
really just a developer who wants to know about it, it's not something 
that a user should really care/worry about.

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-11  1:04 Linus Torvalds
2008-12-11  2:37 ` Gabriel C
2008-12-11  7:19   ` Eric Anholt
2008-12-11 16:07     ` Frans Pop
2008-12-11 16:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-11 16:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-11 17:05           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-12-11 20:36             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-11 20:46               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-11 21:34                 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-12-12  8:24                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-12 15:57                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-12 16:11                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-13 17:15                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-16 22:34                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-11  5:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-11  7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-11  8:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-11  8:45     ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-12  3:02       ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-12  3:07         ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-12  3:39           ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-11  8:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-12-11  8:40 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-12-11 22:57   ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-11 23:12     ` Mike Travis
2008-12-11  9:26 ` Jean Delvare
2008-12-11 10:38 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2008-12-11 16:59   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-11 13:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-11 13:23   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-12-11 13:44 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-12-11 13:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-11 15:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-11 15:29 ` David Howells
2008-12-12  3:19   ` David Miller
2008-12-12  5:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-12  7:54       ` Joerg Roedel
2008-12-12 15:48     ` Alan Cox
2008-12-11 20:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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