Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:28:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
       rene.herman@keyaccess.nl, rene.herman@gmail.com
Subject: Re: + x86-kill-arch-x86-kernel-mpparsec-debugging-printk.patch
 added to -mm tree
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:13:29 -0700
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> > commit 11a62a056093a7f25f1595fbd8bd5f93559572b6 turns some formerly nopped
> > debugging printks in arch/x86/kernel/mppparse.c into regular ones.  The
> > one at the top of smp_scan_config() in particular also prints on
> > !CONFIG_SMP/CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC kernels and UP machines without anything
> > resembling MP tables which makes their lowly UP owners wonder...
> >
> > Given that it was up to this point also not considered valuable user-level
> > information, let's just kill that one.
> >
>
> why?  that just three lines debug debug info.

For the reasons described in the changelog text.  They look quite valid
to me.
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