On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 12:18:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Quite frankly, I wouldn't do a sed-script pass to actually change > existing users. I'd just change how the BUG() implementation itself > works. Not make it a direct WARN_ON(), but perhaps something like > > - use WARN_ON() with a global rate limiter (we do *not* want BUG > cascades, but re-enable the warning after a few minutes) That's interesting, I had exactly this discussion at kernel recipes last week with someone complaining that when warnings scroll, you only see the last ones while only the first one is useful. I guess in most situations we don't even need a rate limiter, just print a single dump and wait 2 minutes or so for the person in front of the screen to have the time to take a photo. > - have some kernel command line option for the server people to allow > them to just force a reboot for it Good point for not doing the sed. > Hmm? > > Anybody want to play with it? Many people will be much more efficient than me at doing it and even testing it so I won't volunteer here. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html