Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:41:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CCISS: Don't print driver version until we actually find a device |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:43 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >> On 26/07/06, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote: >>> If we don't find any devices, we shouldn't print anything. >>> >> I disagree. >> I find it quite nice to be able to see that the driver loaded even if >> it finds nothing. At least then when there's a problem, I can quickly >> see that at least it is not because I didn't forget to load the >> driver, it's something else. Saves time since I can start looking for >> reasons why the driver didn't find anything without first spending >> additional time checking if I failed to cause it to load for some >> reason. > > I'll add a second reason: it is a REALLY nice property to be able to see > which driver is started last in case of a crash/hang, so that the guilty > party is more obvious..
OTOH, it is not a property that scales well at all.
When you build extra drivers into the kernel, or distros load drivers you don't need (_every_ distro does this), you wind up with a bunch of version strings for drivers for hardware you don't have.
Jeff
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