From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E5D45F0019 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:26:10 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space Message-ID: <20090602092610.GE15756@elf.ucw.cz> References: <4A23FF89.2060603@redhat.com> <20090601123503.2337a79b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4A242F94.9010704@redhat.com> <20090602091544.GC15756@elf.ucw.cz> <4A24EF80.5070606@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A24EF80.5070606@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Avi Kivity Cc: Andrew Morton , cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-ID: On Tue 2009-06-02 12:23:12, Avi Kivity wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> Ouch and please... don't stop useful printk() warnings just because >> some 'pie-in-the-sky future binary protocol'. That's what happened in >> ACPI land with battery critical, and it is also why I don't get >> battery warnings on some of my machines. >> > > btw, adding a printk() for acpi battery state may have helped you and > other kernel developers, but would have done nothing for ordinary humans > using Linux on their laptops. We should cater to the general population > first and treat developer needs as nice-to-haves. We already have the programatic interface, but it was used as a reason not to merge printk(). And programatic interface helps nothing with init=/bin/bash boot, minimal userland etc. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org