linux-kernel - Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0

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Message-ID: <20110802101614.009cdf42@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:16:14 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0

> It was a printk_once() when the tunable was scheduled to be removed two 
> years later.  Now that one year has passed since the oom killer rewrite 
> has been merged, it was changed to a WARN_ONCE() simply to attract more 
> attention to the issue. 

For the most part the only people whose attention you need are the
distributions not the end users so the WARN isn't helpful.

Alan
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