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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Print PCI device in power management warning.
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:44:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111223204407.54363939@pyx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111223181626.GA18647@redhat.com>

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:16:26 -0500
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

> When the WARN_ON in pci_has_legacy_pm_support() triggers, we get
> users filing backtraces, but it's not obvious which driver is
> triggering the trace. This adds a printk before the BUG.
> This still isn't perfect (automated tools like abrt will still miss it)
> but we can at least ask the user to look through their dmesg when
> we get these traces reported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

NAK

The old code did a WARN() the new code BUG() which in practice means in
many cases the user will get a crash and hang at boot and not even be
able to catch the trap.

At the very least your changelog should warn people it changes from
WARN_ON noise to system crash and burn.

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-23 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-23 18:16 Print PCI device in power management warning Dave Jones
2011-12-23 20:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-23 20:46   ` Dave Jones
2011-12-23 22:04     ` Randy Dunlap
2011-12-23 20:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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