Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 18:50:03 EST


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:04:12 +1000
Ian Wienand <ianw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just as a point of interest, as an application programmer I think it's
> the type of thing you want to know about quite loudly.

Sure, and I agree that you should have the choice to see
these messages at the verbosity you desire, and ia64 has
the capability to control things in this way.

What I disagree with is spitting out log messages about such things
happening in the kernel. Because that is remotely triggerable. As
Alan mentioned, if I can send packets to your ia64 box I can make it
spew system log messages.

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