linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

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Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:57:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...gle.com>,
	"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

> Yes - so why is it spewing crap, annoying users and trying to irritate
> application authors. It's not 2012 yet.
> 

It's a WARN_ON_ONCE() so it will only spew a single line as a reminder 
that the application needs to be updated; would you prefer that to be 
suppressed until a year before removal, for example?
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