On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:40 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > The 'G' seems to confuse a hell of a lot of people.
> > (I've been asked about it when people got machine checks a lot over
> > the last few months).
> >
> > Would anyone object to changing it to conform to the style of
> > the other taint flags ? Ie, change it to ' ' ?
>
> While you're at it why not print a big loud warning that says not to
> post the Oops to LKML, and instructing the user to reproduce with a
I don't think wasting precious screen real estate on warnings is a good
idea. The oops may also be of use, there have been occassions where the
only oops output had a proprietary bit set. The person handling the bug
report should be the one making the decision as to whether to repost a new
oops.
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