Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:54 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > A single kernel release seems sufficient.  It gives the maintainers of such
> > code time to hear about the breakage and time to fix it.
> 
> Users don't report warnings generally. They won't even see modprobe
> warnings or anything in dmesg. Short of using their sound card to scream
> "Next release you are screwed" they won't notice (and if you the sound
> card trick they'll think they got rooted....)
> 

I once made the mistake of putting a "please tell andrewm@uow.edu.au" printk
in 3c59x.c.  My inbox nearly died.  Then there's that damned "PCI bus hidden
behind transparent bus" printk which I've actually removed from -mm because
so many people keep reporting it and we don't do anything about it.

All it takes is a couple of people to report the problem to the maintainer
over a few-weeks period.  It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect this to
happen.