Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1 pointless IDE noise reduction

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 24 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:
> The ide driver does not list whether drives support things like
> write cache, SMART, SECURITY ERASE UNIT.  But for some silly
> reason it tells us at boot whether each drive is capable of
> supporting the Host Protected Area feature set.  If people want
> to know the capabilites of their drive, they can run 'hdparm' 
> and find out.
> 
> This patch removes this pointless noise.  Please apply,
> 
> 
> --- linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.orig	2003-04-24 03:23:53.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c	2003-04-24 03:24:54.000000000 -0600
> @@ -1133,10 +1133,7 @@
>   */
>  static inline int idedisk_supports_host_protected_area(ide_drive_t *drive)
>  {
> -	int flag = (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400) ? 1 : 0;
> -	if (flag)
> -		printk("%s: host protected area => %d\n", drive->name, flag);
> -	return flag;
> +	return((drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400) ? 1 : 0);
>  }

Seconded, it causes a lot more confusion than it does good.

-- 
Jens Axboe