linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

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Message-ID: <20081023083547.GA32124@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:35:47 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:46:12AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
> +			WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",

Applied to proc.git

As a side note, seeing WARN twice on this line is depressing, and people
use WARN(, KERN_ERR);

I mean, how hard is to get something conceptually simple as warning right?
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