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SubjectRe: don't bother users with unimportant messages.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:09:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> When users see these printed to the console, they think
> something is wrong. As it's just informational and something
> that only developers care about, lower the printk level.

If you're getting complaints about this, wouldn't it be better to
forward them here so that they can be fixed up?

The thing about this particular message is that if you see it, the
driver will _not_ work properly, so it's actually more than a
"debugging" message. It's telling you why driver FOO doesn't work.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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