Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262129AbTHYS2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:28:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262146AbTHYS2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:28:32 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:12951 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262129AbTHYS2b (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:28:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:28:26 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Lou Langholtz , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio.c: reduce verbosity at boot Message-ID: <20030825182826.GC863@suse.de> References: <20030821193728.GB19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 25 On Thu, Aug 21 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > But why is it interesting to have this information at boot time? As a > > user, I certainly don't care. As a developer, I don't find it interesting > > information. > > I do agree. The message may have been useful when the code was young and > people wanted to see that it got executed correctly at all, but there > doesn't seem to be a lot of point to it any more. > > But hey, I'll leave it to the maintainer.. Willy's patch is fine with me as well. Purpose of the messages is long gone. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/