From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932754AbWCVV0V (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:26:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932756AbWCVV0V (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:26:21 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:27545 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932754AbWCVV0U (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:26:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:59:10 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Greg KH Cc: Arjan van de Ven , minyard@acm.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Yani Ioannou Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add full sysfs support to the IPMI driver Message-ID: <20060322205910.GL27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20060321221328.GB27436@i2.minyard.local> <1143018069.2955.43.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060322204751.GC12335@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060322204751.GC12335@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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);