From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable the most annoying printk in the kernel
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       vojtech@suse.cz, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:18:18 +0200
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:

> Well, keyboard detected and reported an error. Kernel reacted with
> printk(). You are removing that printk(). I can understand that,
> printk is really annoying, but I really believe _some_ error handling
> should be added there if you remove the printk.

I once posted a printk that would only actually print if the last printk
wasn't the same message. This would ensure error reporting while preventing
dmesg from being spammed. Off cause this would fail if two subsystems are
competing to annoy you.
-- 
Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren.
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