Re: [PATCH -next] acpi utmisc: use WARN_ON() instead of warn_on_slowpath()

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On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:19:08 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm dropping the ACPI part because we're getting too many
> reports of scary looking backtraces and ACPI exceptions are actually
> not that exceptional.

when I talked to Len about it he implied/said that these would only
happen for ACPI code bugs (and not bios bugs). Maybe he was
overestimating what the code would actually do; if so it would imo be
well worth splitting out ACPI code assertions versions things that are
BIOS caused (if only to be able to inform the user more consistently)


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