From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:21:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:21:18 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:42885 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:21:02 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:19:52 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <20010628131641.5e10ecca.reynolds@redhat.com> <9hfter$9e7$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> In-Reply-To: <9hfter$9e7$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106291319520Z.01786@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 June 2001 14:36, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You know what I hate? Debugging stuff like BIOS-e820, zone messages, > dentry|buffer|page-cache hash table entries, CPU: Before vendor init, > CPU: After vendor init, etc etc, PCI: Probing PCI hardware, > ip_conntrack (256 buckets, 2048 max), the complete APIC tables, etc We've got a couple of VA rackmount servers with adaptec scsi controllers that print out several SCREENS worth of information as they probe all the busses and joyfully announce that yes, there are still hard drives plugged into some of them, and even gives me a list of the ones that DON'T have hard drives plugged into them. Interestingly, the bios also goes through a very similar ritual earlier in the boot. Rob