linux-kernel - Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0

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Date:	Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:41:37 -1000
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> aw, what crap.
>
> "/proc/%d/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/%d/oom_score_adj instead."
>
> Once per boot.  That's not "scary".

It is when there is that totally pointless stack trace, and the kernel
bug reporting tool picks it up and tells the user that there was a
kernel oops.

Which it really does.

So if it was a "printk_once()" it would be fine. The WARN_ONCE() is
just annoying.

             Linus
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