From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:08:42 -0800 (PST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491 In-Reply-To: <1132810499.1921.93.camel@mindpipe> Message-ID: References: <200511232256.jANMuGg20547@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <200511232335.15050.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20051124044009.GE30849@redhat.com> <1132810499.1921.93.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Revell Cc: Dave Jones , Alistair John Strachan , Con Kolivas , Kenneth W , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- 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