From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Nuri Jawad <lkml@jawad.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 13:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445BB050.4040309@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605052131580.28721@pc>
>> Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how
>> hardware should be?
>
> You mean deciding not to silently ignore errors is having a utopian
> view? Are we talking about Linux or kernel32.dll?
>
>> When a user can't do *anything* about it, it's useless, and serves
>> as nothing but a cause for concern. "Oh no, is my laptop dying?".
>
> Laptops come with Windows XP pre-installed for those users, what was
> your problem again?
Sorry, but these comparisons to Windows are just childish.
Linux is not obliged to spit out meaningless, unhelpful error messages,
and be as user-hostile as possible. It's not a good trait. The current
error message is wrong ... if we can come up with something useful to
print, then great. But throwing 'Windows' around is not useful, and
neither are crappy, incorrect errors.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-04 2:44 Remove silly messages from input layer Dave Jones
2006-05-04 7:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 7:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 15:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-04 18:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-05-04 18:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-05 10:39 ` Sergei Organov
2006-05-05 10:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-05 15:27 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:54 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 16:00 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 16:12 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 19:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-05 20:06 ` Martin Bligh [this message]
2006-05-05 20:30 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-07 8:07 ` Joseph Fannin
2006-05-08 6:43 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-08 7:25 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-09 6:54 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-04 19:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-04 15:45 ` David Greaves
2006-05-06 18:51 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2006-05-04 14:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-04 19:24 ` Hua Zhong
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