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 82F536B00C0 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A24EF80.5070606@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:23:12 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space References: <4A23FF89.2060603@redhat.com> <20090601123503.2337a79b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4A242F94.9010704@redhat.com> <20090602091544.GC15756@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20090602091544.GC15756@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andrew Morton , cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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