Re: [patch 4/7 -mm] oom: badness heuristic rewrite

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:31:14 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > There _are_ things we can do though.  Detect a write to the old file and
> > emit a WARN_ON_ONCE("you suck").  Wait a year, turn it into
> > WARN_ON("you really suck").  Wait a year, then remove it.
> > 
> 
> Ok, I'll use WARN_ON_ONCE() to let the user know of the deprecation and 
> then add an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.

A printk_once() would be better - WARN() generates a big stack
spew which often is wholly irrelevant.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/