Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:16 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages. |
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:15:23AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > 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?
w83627hf, and probably other drivers from drivers/hwmon/
> 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.
I'm pretty certain this driver _was_ working fine before this change.
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