From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: dmesg spam Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:59:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20080204195923.5d893a18.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080203143033.cfea0501.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200802041524.55700.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20080204120548.79f3fe57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A7721C.5020505@garzik.org> <1202156442.3096.107.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A7747C.2040702@garzik.org> <1202157858.3096.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48695 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbYBED7c (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:59:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1202157858.3096.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:44:18 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:24 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > James Bottomley wrote: > > > It's here in sr_ioctl.c: > > > > Ah, indeed. My grep-fu sucks today. > > > > > > > I'm not averse to simply nuking the printk ... it's probably valueless > > > in a modern kernel, since something dbussy is supposed to tell you to > > > put a CD in the drive, not something in the kernel. > > > > The reverse... dbussy/HAL is implementing autodetection of media > > insertion, by polling ad infinitum. > > Understood ... I meant the day of the user relying on a message from a > kernel printk to tell them they need a CD in the drive is long over. > OK, sorry, I'm hopelessly full of it. These messages also are produced by 2.6.24, 2.6.23 and 2.6.23.1-49.fc8. I don't think anyone would miss this message were it to bite the D key.