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
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:08:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511241005180.16752@montezuma.fsmlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132810499.1921.93.camel@mindpipe>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-24 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-23 22:56 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-11-23 23:24 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-23 23:33 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-11-23 23:35 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-23 23:38 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-23 23:40 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-24 4:38 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-23 23:36 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-23 23:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-23 23:35 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-24 4:40 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-24 5:34 ` Lee Revell
2005-11-24 18:08 ` Zwane Mwaikambo [this message]
2005-11-24 6:57 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-24 7:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-24 11:33 ` Lee Revell
2005-11-24 18:59 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-24 23:47 ` Keith Owens
2005-11-24 23:50 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-25 10:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-25 10:45 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-24 8:04 ` Hugh Dickins
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