On 6/12/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue 2007-06-12 14:38:28, Ray Lee wrote: > Panicking when it's not necessary is anti-social. If the kernel can > continue, then it should, unless it's a correctness issue that may > cause data corruption. Given that the kernel can even work around the > problem now, throwing a panic is even less warranted.Printk("*********************** WARNING") is anti-social, too.
Pavel, this warning isn't even going to print on any of your systems. So it's completely different than the straw-man you're proposing (that I snipped). Look, if you want to argue that the stars should go away, then sure, I'm not going to stop you. But panicking over a BIOS misconfiguration issue? One that can be corrected by the kernel? That's just plain stupid. Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
