On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:54 +0100 Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A single kernel release seems sufficient. It gives the maintainers of such
> > code time to hear about the breakage and time to fix it.
>
> Users don't report warnings generally. They won't even see modprobe
> warnings or anything in dmesg. Short of using their sound card to scream
> "Next release you are screwed" they won't notice (and if you the sound
> card trick they'll think they got rooted....)
>
I once made the mistake of putting a "please tell [email protected]" printk
in 3c59x.c. My inbox nearly died. Then there's that damned "PCI bus hidden
behind transparent bus" printk which I've actually removed from -mm because
so many people keep reporting it and we don't do anything about it.
All it takes is a couple of people to report the problem to the maintainer
over a few-weeks period. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect this to
happen.
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