From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Remove KERN_ERR output if nForce2 chipset not found
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:06:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903061606.05975.jarod@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada3adqid5v.fsf@cisco.com>
On Friday 06 March 2009 15:55:56 Roland Dreier wrote:
> Distribution kernels are building cpufreq drivers into the kernel to get
> faster boot; if the nForce2 driver is built in, then on systems that are
> not supported by the driver (ie nearly all current systems), the message
>
> cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.
>
> is printed at the KERN_ERR level, which means it goes to the console
> even if quiet boot is turned on.
>
> The best way to handle this is just to delete the message, since the
> likelihood of it ever being of any use to anyone is very low, and other
> cpufreq drivers don't print anything if no matching hardware is found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Nb: Matthew Garrett submitted a similar-but-different patch a week or
two ago on the cpufreq list that demoted the message to KERN_INFO.
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-06 20:55 [PATCH] cpufreq: Remove KERN_ERR output if nForce2 chipset not found Roland Dreier
2009-03-06 21:06 ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2009-03-06 21:51 ` Roland Dreier
2009-03-06 22:01 ` Jarod Wilson
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