linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86

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Date:	30 Jun 2007 21:50:47 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>, Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86_64

Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com> writes:
> 
> The convention is to print a KERN_DEBUG message if hardware is not
> found when probing it, otherwise the boot messages become cluttered
> with lots of "$FOO not found".

No the convention is to print no message at all when nothing is found
Some drivers fail this, but they're bad examples.

-Andi
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