Re: Revert needed: udev spewing warnons on common systems in 3.0

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 02 2011 - 05:13:26 EST


> It was a printk_once() when the tunable was scheduled to be removed two
> years later. Now that one year has passed since the oom killer rewrite
> has been merged, it was changed to a WARN_ONCE() simply to attract more
> attention to the issue.

For the most part the only people whose attention you need are the
distributions not the end users so the WARN isn't helpful.

Alan
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