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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting Message
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:10:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102021831.6127.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CZnb9-0005Ad-AC@sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net>

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:45:50AM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > Next time someone needs to collect data like this,
> > instead of having the message request a post to an
> > email list, perhaps it should point to a web page.
> > 
> > Initially, the web page would then ask for the email
> > posting.  But then it could be changed - to explain
> > that it no longer mattered.
> 
> Well, we never counted on a distro actually leaving those messages in :)
> 
> Almost all of the reports here are because of Fedora Core 3 picking up
> wait_for_sysfs a bit early in it's development process.

Yeah, but the good point is that it annoyed me so much. :) It was the
incentive to export what to wait for (PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS) from the
kernel (2.6.10), which seems to work well.

> Oh well, we learn and move on :)

Yes, a link to a web page is a good idea. We may try that next time.

Thanks,
Kay



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02  9:51 Reporting Message Darren Keech
2004-12-02 10:25 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-02 15:45 ` Paul Jackson
2004-12-02 18:37 ` Greg KH
2004-12-02 20:51 ` Paul Jackson
2004-12-02 21:10 ` Kay Sievers [this message]

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