On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:43 PM Jeff Layton [off-list ref] wrote:

What sort of big, ugly warning did you have in mind?

I originally thought WARN_ON_ONCE() just to get the distro automatic
error handling involved, but it would probably be a big problem for
the people who end up having panic-on-warn or something.

So probably just a "make it a big box" thing that stands out, kind of
what lockdep etc does with

        pr_warn("======...====\n");

around the messages..

I don't know if distros have some pattern we could use that would end
up being something that gets reported to the user?

              Linus