Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:09:50 +0100 (BST) |
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> Is it appropriate to mention that the TCP/IP implementation is by the > Swansea University Computer Society, or that Donald Becker wrote the > WD8003 driver? This just makes Linux look like more of a patchwork > than it already is, rather than giving a seamless, well-integrated > appearance.
Given said computer society would probably no longer exist if it had not you judge. I don't see what the problem is with the copyright messages. It would be good to change them to all use the same format and style so we get for example
eth0: NE2000 IRQ 7 I/O 0x240 Address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Version 1.14
but also changing stuff like the floppy to report
fd0: XXXXXchip IRQ n I/O xxx ....
The way to do this would probably be to provide
report_config(devname, irq, io, mem, memend, dma, other, version);
that did the formatting how you wanted it (assuming IO -1 , MEM -1 etc mean no entry for)
Alan
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