From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756530AbZCFVG2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:06:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755394AbZCFVGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:06:12 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35286 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755344AbZCFVGK (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:06:10 -0500 From: Jarod Wilson Organization: Red Hat, Inc. To: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Remove KERN_ERR output if nForce2 chipset not found Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:06:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: davej@redhat.com, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903061606.05975.jarod@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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