Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:08:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
       Con Kolivas <con@kolivas.org>, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:40 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> > (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
> >  the last few months).
> > 
> > Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> > the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ? 
> 
> While you're at it why not print a big loud warning that says not to
> post the Oops to LKML, and instructing the user to reproduce with a

I don't think wasting precious screen real estate on warnings is a good 
idea. The oops may also be of use, there have been occassions where the 
only oops output had a proprietary bit set. The person handling the bug 
report should be the one making the decision as to whether to repost a new 
oops.
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