Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:10:48 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bio.c: reduce verbosity at boot |
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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.
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