Re: AGP bogosities

David Lang
2005-03-14T08:32:24Z

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:

>> I'm fascinated that not a single person picked up on this problem
>> whilst the agp code sat in -mm. Even if DRI isn't enabled,
>> every box out there with AGP that uses the generic routines
>> (which is a majority), should have barfed loudly when it hit
>> this check during boot. Does no-one read dmesg output any more ?
>
> Its way too long these days. Like "so long it overflows even enlarged
> buffer". We should prune these messages down to "one line per hw
> device or serious problems only".

especially if you turn on encryption options. I can understand that output
being useful for debugging, but there should be a way to not deal with it
in the normal case.

David Lang

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