Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757430AbYLKRGY (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:06:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756863AbYLKRF6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:58 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48286 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756841AbYLKRF5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:05:00 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar cc: Frans Pop , Eric Anholt , nix.or.die@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 In-Reply-To: <20081211163548.GA11859@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <49407CE1.9090600@googlemail.com> <49407CE1.9090600@googlemail.com> <1228979963.3254.8.camel@gaiman.anholt.net> <200812111707.20857.elendil@planet.nl> <20081211163548.GA11859@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 22 On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > hm, the warning caught a couple of real bugs already. (one in some cpq > driver, another was in some networking driver iirc) Well, one thing that does irritate me is that it scares people who can't do anything about it, and probably _shouldn't_ do anything about it. I wonder if we should just change the "Warning" message to "Informational" or something. Yes, they are often real bugs. But no, they're not _automatically_ bugs. Almost all the time when a warning triggers, it's really just a developer who wants to know about it, it's not something that a user should really care/worry about. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/