On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:37:32PM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
On 04-May-2008 Andrew Doran wrote:
pci_subr.o is now quite large. I think it's time to retire
PCIVERBOSE and
give the job of identification to pcictl, in userspace. It could
do with a
way to operate on all busses at once but otherwise, it seems to
do the job
already.
Please no. I make frequent use of that functionality when porting
to a new
machine. It also makes my life much easier to just ask a user for
a dmesg, and
have the descriptions right there.
Additionally, as a user, I like to see that stuff come across the
screen when
booting. I know instantly if something is not right.
Presumably these machines boot slowly. On x86 it all goes by so
fast there
is no time to sit back and enjoy the green text dmesg pr0n. 8-)