Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 14:45:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0 |
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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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