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SubjectRe: 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 >



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