Re: A 3c905B behaving strange

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> > > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> > > 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xa000. Vers LK1.1.16
> > 
> > Grrrr, there should be more messages here.  [[ Andrew?  Bogdan?  This
> > may be some distribution turning down the message level.  ]]
> 
> Errr, no, that was Linus asking for less verbose init messages. Andrew was 
> the only one (that I noticed, anyway) who actually did it. He also 
> mentioned some time afterwards that he will put back the messages, but it 
> didn't happen yet...

The kernel puts out several pages of verbose, duplicate information
about the CPUs, IRQ mapping (admittedly sometimes important),
dentry/inode cache, and we strip out three lines of important NIC
identity information?  That's the information that a human needs to
map an interface to a physical device.

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Donald Becker				[email protected]
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