Re: "loading device 'ethN+1'" bugfix.

Paul Gortmaker (paul@rasty.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Tue, 26 May 1998 04:02:12 +1000 (EST)


> Dear Linux-Net,
>
> I suggest that we remove the statement:
>
> printk("loading device '%s'...\n", dev->name);

That would be fine with me.

I think its original function was to at least put
something on the screen just in case a driver silently
hung while attempting to load. Fortunately this never
happens anymore <g>. (In reality nearly all the drivers
do have some sort of banner they spash onto the screen
before/during probing, so it isn't really an issue.)

At a minimum, we should at least replace "loading" with
"probing for" so that the message made more sense in all
cases.

Paul.
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