From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:20:42 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH] remove unimplemented syscalls noise Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:15:23 -0800, "Seth, Rohit" said: Rohit> Well, in the case of unaligned faults, there is no other way Rohit> for an application to know that there were unaligned faults. Rohit> Whereas for unsupported system calls, the kernel will return Rohit> ENOSYS and thus the application gets the required Rohit> notification (so that it can take any action it wants). It Rohit> does not need to depend on dmesg stuff to find that Rohit> information out. True in principle, but in practice, you can't always run strace to find out what's going on, either because the problem starts in early boot or because the problem is triggered indirectly through daemons etc. Rohit> So, it does make sense to remove this printk (even though it Rohit> is _debug_) in this path. I really much favor for distro's to make dmesg -n4 the default. There is no reason to bother average users with KERN_{NOTICE,INFO,DEBUG} stuff unless they ask for it. --david