linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] revert "PCI: log vendor/device ID always"

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Message-ID: <1349446478.2008.66.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:14:38 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert "PCI: log vendor/device ID always"

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 08:55 -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> On 10/04/2012 11:37 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:02 -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> >> At many of our customer sites the log level is set to KERN_DEBUG. It
> >> helps avoid reboots due to operator impatience.  Machines this large
> >> take significantly longer then typical to boot and seeing the extra
> >> messages reassures them that the kernel isn't hung.
> > That argues for adding some KERN_INFO "still booting" messages
> > not logging unnecessary KERN_DEBUG messages.
> >
> Actually I would think that argues for reducing boot times on these 
> large systems.

Right.

That's an independent argument, but sure, go ahead
and do that too.



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