Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:34:45 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Especially as "dmesg" will output even the debugging messages > that do not actually end up being printed on the screen unless explicitly > asked for.
Nifty, I did not know that. Makes all kinds of sense, though. Silly me...
> I'd also like to acknowledge the fact that at bootup it's usually very > nice to see "what was the last message it printed before it hung", and > that there's a fair reason for drivers to print out a single line of "I > just registered myself" for that reason. If that line happens to contain a > version string, all the better.
Excellent.
Jeff
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