From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060219082916.GA19903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060219081523.GA9668@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:15:23AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:09:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > When users see these printed to the console, they think
> > something is wrong. As it's just informational and something
> > that only developers care about, lower the printk level.
>
> If you're getting complaints about this, wouldn't it be better to
> forward them here so that they can be fixed up?
w83627hf, and probably other drivers from drivers/hwmon/
> The thing about this particular message is that if you see it, the
> driver will _not_ work properly, so it's actually more than a
> "debugging" message. It's telling you why driver FOO doesn't work.
I'm pretty certain this driver _was_ working fine before this change.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-19 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-19 1:09 don't bother users with unimportant messages Dave Jones
2006-02-19 1:17 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-19 8:15 ` Russell King
2006-02-19 8:29 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-02-19 9:31 ` Russell King
2006-02-19 9:47 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-19 17:57 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 18:37 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-19 22:41 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 20:36 ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-19 20:34 ` Gene Heskett
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