Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932095AbWBSI3Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751225AbWBSI3Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:24 -0500 Received: from c-66-31-106-233.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([66.31.106.233]:47330 "EHLO nwo.kernelslacker.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204AbWBSI3Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:24 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:29:16 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages. Message-ID: <20060219082916.GA19903@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel References: <20060219010910.GA18841@redhat.com> <20060219081523.GA9668@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060219081523.GA9668@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 23 On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:15:23AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:09:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > When users see these printed to the console, they think > > something is wrong. As it's just informational and something > > that only developers care about, lower the printk level. > > If you're getting complaints about this, wouldn't it be better to > forward them here so that they can be fixed up? w83627hf, and probably other drivers from drivers/hwmon/ > The thing about this particular message is that if you see it, the > driver will _not_ work properly, so it's actually more than a > "debugging" message. It's telling you why driver FOO doesn't work. I'm pretty certain this driver _was_ working fine before this change. Dave - 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/