linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812110902450.3340@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:05:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	nix.or.die@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> hm, the warning caught a couple of real bugs already. (one in some cpq 
> driver, another was in some networking driver iirc)

Well, one thing that does irritate me is that it scares people who can't 
do anything about it, and probably _shouldn't_ do anything about it.

I wonder if we should just change the "Warning" message to "Informational" 
or something. Yes, they are often real bugs. But no, they're not 
_automatically_ bugs. Almost all the time when a warning triggers, it's 
really just a developer who wants to know about it, it's not something 
that a user should really care/worry about.

			Linus
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