From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263046AbTHVGNY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263048AbTHVGNY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:13:24 -0400 Received: from warden3-p.diginsite.com ([208.147.64.186]:59811 "HELO warden3.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263046AbTHVGNW (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:13:22 -0400 From: David Lang To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Lou Langholtz , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio.c: reduce verbosity at boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > But why is it interesting to have this information at boot time? As a > > user, I certainly don't care. As a developer, I don't find it interesting > > information. > > I do agree. The message may have been useful when the code was young and > people wanted to see that it got executed correctly at all, but there > doesn't seem to be a lot of point to it any more. > > But hey, I'll leave it to the maintainer.. > > Linus as a user I find a minimal set of messages (loading driver, hardware found) handy for identifying what hardware is actually in old machines I am given. that said there is a lot of distance between that and the current situation where you print out 3-4 screens worth of info for a single driver. David Lang