Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751211AbWEGIHV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751216AbWEGIHU (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:20 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.197]:33505 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751211AbWEGIHT (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:from; b=X8bcXt4CrrQrkflgEzw5ePeH9+cP52A/rHJc8IspA+HUNNm/kFnHskd/jmxP3/X/Op8iqYkk58q72atTckRlfXzzmzm2sD3qJzuR8HvAsrimCD/5HgfyVEP2z2snG3mQadEsvybr5OgJngln9spMnYdx0Pqejw74f+tc9kbHQIw= Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:16 -0400 To: Nuri Jawad Cc: Martin Bligh , Dave Jones , Martin Mares , Pavel Machek , dtor_core@ameritech.net, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. Message-ID: <20060507080715.GA8216@nineveh.rivenstone.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nuri Jawad , Martin Bligh , Dave Jones , Martin Mares , Pavel Machek , dtor_core@ameritech.net, Linux Kernel References: <20060504183840.GE18962@redhat.com> <20060505103123.GB4206@elf.ucw.cz> <20060505152748.GA22870@redhat.com> <20060505154638.GE22870@redhat.com> <20060505160009.GB25883@redhat.com> <445BB050.4040309@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: jfannin@gmail.com (Joseph Fannin) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 27 On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:30:00PM +0200, Nuri Jawad wrote: > > It is useful to show you what kind of environment many users do not want > to have. Hiding information is not user-friendly for the experienced user, > only for the novice. Spamming my logs with these messages so often that my dmesg buffer soon contains nothing but and I have to use grep -v to read my syslog is not user-friendly, and I am hardly a novice. At most, a reworded message should be emitted on the first occurance of the error and not again until a reboot. If you want to know more, there are debugging tools for that sort of thing. -- Joseph Fannin jhf@rivenstone.net /* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful' talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something eloquent like `fuck'. - RR */ - 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/