linux-kernel - Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27

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Message-Id: <200809121659.21743.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:59:20 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	herton@...driva.com.br, me@...copeland.com,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, bogdano@...driva.com.br,
	lcapitulino@...driva.com.br, draconux@...il.com,
	dlallement@...driva.com, pterjan@...driva.com, axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27

> > > ________________________________________________________________disk->disk_name, p);
> > > -______________________________________________continue;
> > > ________________________________}
> 
> wtf-your-email-client-is-insane.

I have no idea where that came from.  Wasn't in the original or
in my copy.


> > So that now deserves to be KERN_WARN not KERN_ERR, yes?
> 
> spose so.
> 
> I'm fairly unenthused about the recent KERN_correctness fad since it
> went and broke sysrq-T output (you have to set the loglevel beforehand
> to avoid getting only partial output).

On development systems I generally "echo 8 > /proc/sysrq*"
to make sure KERN_DEBUG isn't hidden.

In this case it's just that I saw flamage a few minutes
earlier from someone trying to keep a distro boot from
spewing scarey messages for things that were NOT errors.
Like ... this message.  :)

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