On 09/26/2013 11:50 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:37:34PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote: >>>> + WARN_ONCE(1, "memblock: Failed to allocate memory in bottom up " >>>> + "direction. Now try top down direction.\n"); >>>> + } >>> >>> You and I would know what was going on and what the consequence of the >>> failure may be but the above warning message is kinda useless to a >>> user / admin, right? It doesn't really say anything meaningful. >>> >> >> Hmmmm.. May be something like this: >> >> WARN_ONCE(1, "Failed to allocated memory above the kernel in bottom-up," >> "so try to allocate memory below the kernel."); > > How about something like "memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, > memory hotunplug may be affected\n". >
Ok, I understand what you want. Explicitly telling the user the functionality may be invalid due to some failure. Yeah, this is really meaningful, i will take yours, thanks. -- Thanks. Zhang Yanfei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
