From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: tilman@imap.cc, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hjlipp@web.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter (take 2)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:03:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060309130327.32ef68de.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490603091058l75aacacsfc5fdba3981fb074@mail.gmail.com>
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Feb 21 00:12:13 gx110 kernel: gigaset: ISDN_CMD_SETL3: invalid protocol 42
> >
> > do not provide any useful information for that clientele. They just push
>
> The filename may not be useful to the user, but the instant the user decides to
> submit a bugreport to LKML or elsewhere it becomes useful.
But OTOH, there's a difference between messages-to-developers (usually "the
code went wrong") and messages-to-users (hopefully usually "the hardware
went wrong" or "you went wrong").
So I guess the change is a good one for end-user informational messages.
And end-users are the party who should be served, more than developers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-08 22:54 [PATCH] reduce syslog clutter (take 2) Tilman Schmidt
2006-03-09 5:47 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-09 10:15 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-03-09 11:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-09 16:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-09 18:43 ` Tilman Schmidt
[not found] ` <9a8748490603091058l75aacacsfc5fdba3981fb074@mail.gmail.com>
2006-03-09 19:17 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-03-09 21:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-09 21:18 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-03-09 22:42 ` Greg KH
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