From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: dmesg spam Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:44:18 -0600 Message-ID: <1202157858.3096.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080203143033.cfea0501.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200802041524.55700.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20080204120548.79f3fe57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A7721C.5020505@garzik.org> <1202156442.3096.107.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A7747C.2040702@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:60977 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756472AbYBDUoY (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:44:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A7747C.2040702@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:24 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > It's here in sr_ioctl.c: > > Ah, indeed. My grep-fu sucks today. > > > > I'm not averse to simply nuking the printk ... it's probably valueless > > in a modern kernel, since something dbussy is supposed to tell you to > > put a CD in the drive, not something in the kernel. > > The reverse... dbussy/HAL is implementing autodetection of media > insertion, by polling ad infinitum. Understood ... I meant the day of the user relying on a message from a kernel printk to tell them they need a CD in the drive is long over. James