Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add full sysfs support to the IPMI driver

Al Viro
2006-03-22T21:26:21Z

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:47:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Of course that's not ok.
>
> Come on people, does everyone think I just put that warning message in
> the kernel for fun to force you to create an empty release function?
> Why do people ignore the helpful hints that the kernel provides?
>
> I can take that check out and watch people get their code wrong even
> more, as it sure doesn't seem like it is helping anyone out these
> days...

Put a description on sufficiently stable site and make that
printk(KERN_ERR "Read The Fucking Manual, wanker: %s\n", URL);