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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rientjes@google.com
Subject: Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:32:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801183207.cea89a96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110802005206.GA3832@tassilo.jf.intel.com>

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:52:06 -0700 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Can you please revert 
> 
> commit be8f684d73d8d916847e996bf69cef14352872c6
> Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Date:   Mon Jul 25 17:12:18 2011 -0700
> 
>     oom: make deprecated use of oom_adj more verbose
> 
>     /proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated and scheduled for removal in August 2012
>     according to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
> 
> 
> This makes most of my test systems (suse 11.1, 11.2) spew scary WARN_ONs
> on every boot. GNOME then also complains.

aw, what crap.

"/proc/%d/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/%d/oom_score_adj instead."

Once per boot.  That's not "scary".

> While it doesn't cause actual 
> misfunction it scares me every time I boot and other people who can't
> read git logs like me will be unnecessary scared.

What?  Look at the damn text - the only reason anyone would need to
read a git log after looking at that is terminal cretinism.

> Also the warning is completely useless: noone will be "fixing"
> udev on old distributions.

I bet there were still old copies of /sbin/update lying around, but we
still managed to remove sys_bdflush() this way.

> IMHO that's not acceptable to break common user land like this.
> Linux is supposed to be binary compatible and this patch is not
> in this spirit.
> 
> Actually removing the file later should be still fine, but 
> not printing out these scary messages.
> 
> I propose to revert this misguided patch for stable and 3.1
> 

I see lots of fake reasoning.  What's really going on here??

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-02  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02  0:52 Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0 Andi Kleen
2011-08-02  1:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-08-02  1:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-02  2:22     ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02  9:16       ` Alan Cox
2011-08-02  9:53         ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 10:11           ` Alan Cox
2011-08-02 11:22             ` David Miller
2011-08-02 14:45             ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02 21:50               ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 21:45             ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02 22:06               ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02 11:20           ` David Miller
2011-08-02  2:34 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-02  6:07   ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-02  9:54     ` [patch] oom: change warning for deprecated oom_adj to avoid WARN_ONCE() David Rientjes
2011-08-03  6:10       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-08-04  6:04         ` David Rientjes
2011-08-04  7:48           ` Borislav Petkov

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