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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:25:06 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org> To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz> Cc: "Jesse Barnes" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>, "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs On 6/12/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote: > On Tue 2007-06-12 14:38:28, Ray Lee wrote: > > Panicking when it's not necessary is anti-social. If the kernel can > > continue, then it should, unless it's a correctness issue that may > > cause data corruption. Given that the kernel can even work around the > > problem now, throwing a panic is even less warranted. > > Printk("*********************** WARNING") > > is anti-social, too. Pavel, this warning isn't even going to print on any of your systems. So it's completely different than the straw-man you're proposing (that I snipped). Look, if you want to argue that the stars should go away, then sure, I'm not going to stop you. But panicking over a BIOS misconfiguration issue? One that can be corrected by the kernel? That's just plain stupid. Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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