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Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:04:29 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86: introduce ENTRY(KPROBE)_X86  assembly helpers
	to catch unbalanced declaration

[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:00:25PM +0100]
...
| > 
| > So be it :) Btw I think Alexander is right -- better to use .warning 
| > instead of .error (and without .abort) even on x86. Could you update 
| > Ingo?
| 
| .error is perfectly fine because that way automated tests that we do 
| on -tip will catch any bugs, we really dont want to mis-annotate these 
| things. Warnings tend to only pile up and rarely get fixed - without 
| enforcement mechanism that causes people to fix them.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

ok, let me try to play with this feature a bit. Will report the results.

		- Cyrill -
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