Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

Kai Henningsen
2001-06-28T22:19:21Z

torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 28.06.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106281055410.15199-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > I agree the messages can be ugly. But they don't do any harm either, and
> > sometimes they're useful.
>
> I consider them harmful when I start getting annoying patches that start
> adding more and more of them.

Or when there are enough boot messages that the dmesg buffer overflows. My
current (2.2.19pre1 or so) system has that problem.

That *is* harm caused by these messages.

MfG Kai