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Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert "PCI: log vendor/device ID always"
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On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:02 -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> At many of our customer sites the log level is set to KERN_DEBUG. It 
> helps avoid reboots due to operator impatience.  Machines this large 
> take significantly longer then typical to boot and seeing the extra 
> messages reassures them that the kernel isn't hung.

That argues for adding some KERN_INFO "still booting" messages
not logging unnecessary KERN_DEBUG messages.