Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space

Avi Kivity
2009-06-03T15:27:17Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Ouch and please... don't stop useful printk() warnings just because
> some 'pie-in-the-sky future binary protocol'. That's what happened in
> ACPI land with battery critical, and it is also why I don't get
> battery warnings on some of my machines.
>

btw, adding a printk() for acpi battery state may have helped you and
other kernel developers, but would have done nothing for ordinary humans
using Linux on their laptops. We should cater to the general population
first and treat developer needs as nice-to-haves.

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