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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:14:07 +0000

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:02:53 +1100
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Well
> > 
> > $ grep fire drivers/char/lp.c
> >                         printk(KERN_INFO "lp%d on fire\n", minor);
> 
> Interesting. It got changed and then the change got lost between 2.2 and
> 2.4 somewhere. It was changed to report
> 
> "lp0 reported invalid error status (on fire, eh?)"
> 
> and it looks like that needs re-fixing.

This is just proof that it doesn't matter.  If it got lost in
2.4.x that means it's been like this forever as far as %99
of current systems are concerned.

I'm all for seriousness, but if we can't have some comedic license
with a few kernel log messages then the fun of kernel development
truly suffers :-)