Re: [PATCH] Disable the most annoying printk in the kernel

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Well, keyboard detected and reported an error. Kernel reacted with
> > printk(). You are removing that printk(). I can understand that,
> > printk is really annoying, but I really believe _some_ error handling
> > should be added there if you remove the printk.
> 
> What do you suggest?

Second possibility would be to create "error" event, and send it to userspace.
Userspace would probably ignore it, but that's okay. At least it
has chance to do the right thing.
(AKA dbus event, and nice, friendly "do not panic" message ;-)
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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