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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:11:17 +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 > That's obviously wrong since all of the applications that I've cited > that have been fixed to date have been the result of users actually > noticing the printk_once() and emailing me directly to pass it along to > the appropriate parties. I've also found other cases where bugzilla > entries were created based on that single line warning by users, who in > turn get distros and maintainers to convert to the new interface. And what did the users do - they complained to the distribution. > It's quite effective, but there are still some applications that have yet > to be reported, hence the reason for anybody actually hitting this new > WARN_ONCE(). Perhaps the right way to do it would be to file the bugzillas in the key distros instead Actually this raises a more interesting question - would it make sense to have a moderated notification list for poking all the distributions about things like old API expiry > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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