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SubjectRe: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.
>

All of the examples that I've cited that were fixed as a result of the
printk_once() were through bugzilla for the developers of those
applications, I didn't talk to any distro when I publically said I would
handle all reports of this warning that people didn't know how to triage.

> 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 >
>

I think that's the goal of linux-api@vger.kernel.org although it only has
113 subscribers, so it could probably play the role of a notification list
as well as a place to report warnings for things such as deprecated
interfaces. More communication other than just sometimes stale entries in
Documentation/ABI and Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt would
certainly be helpful.


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