From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!" Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20090126174654.GA26064@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1229641573.3726.563.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Herbert Xu , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Mackall Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229641573.3726.563.camel@calx> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:06:13PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > No one has printer ports any more so it hardly seems worth the trouble. USB printers go through the same code. > Most people won't actually think their printer is on fire. But most > people WILL think there is serious cause for concern when they see this > for the first time in dmesg. Many will search the net for explanations > and come away confused and not entirely reassured. And at least one > clueless guy will call the police because he still thinks he's under > attack. I dealt with an epson inkjet (USB based) a few years ago that would reliably trigger that message when it was out of ink. I thought it was ammusing that they picked that signal to indicate out of ink. Not sure if current models do it too. > Now that certainly fits my definition of amusing and if my goal for > Linux was to amuse myself at the expense of users, I'd be all for > keeping it[1]. But perversely, I actually want users to enjoy their > Linux experience. > > [1] Hell, I'd probably even get them to use git. -- Len Sorensen