[vortex] 3c575 support broken

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed Nov 21 10:55:00 2001


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Donald Becker wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm, note that the driver ID line isn't emitted with the newer kernels.
> > That makes it difficult to accurately identify the driver.
> 
> A while back Linus went on a little "quieten the boot messages"
> campaign and I think I was the only person who listened.
> 
> It's really irritating.  I'll back it out.

This was an ill-advised effort.  The network drivers are pretty good
about minimizing the messages.  Compare to the many lines of e.g. IRQ
mapping information.  Or cryptic lines such as

scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096


Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993