Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:11:17 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0 |
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> 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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