> > Well, if they're never going to happen, why are there printk's
> > to tell you it happened? :) [...]
>
> because Linux sometimes even makes the impossible become possible ;)
> Seriously, those are debugging messages, 'not possible' theoretically, but
> a hardware (or software) bug can trigger it. (i dont think censors want to
> ban PCs altogether just because it's theoretically possible to have a
> hardware bug that accidentally prints 'shit' on the screen) This whole
> nice piece of australian legislature clearly defies common logic.
I couldn't agree more with you there. Now having actually looked
more carefully through the code it would appear that even where profanity
is used there is also quite a bit of appropriate info given. I had
initially gotten the impression there were such things as 'SHIT[%d]' in
the kernel, with nothing more than that. However, if you actually go
look and not just fgrep I at least have found that many times the next
line has lots of debugging info...
Stephen
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