[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
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