On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:47, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:43 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 26/07/06, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If we don't find any devices, we shouldn't print anything.
> > >
> > I disagree.
> > I find it quite nice to be able to see that the driver loaded even if
> > it finds nothing. At least then when there's a problem, I can quickly
> > see that at least it is not because I didn't forget to load the
> > driver, it's something else. Saves time since I can start looking for
> > reasons why the driver didn't find anything without first spending
> > additional time checking if I failed to cause it to load for some
> > reason.
>
> I'll add a second reason: it is a REALLY nice property to be able to see
> which driver is started last in case of a crash/hang, so that the guilty
> party is more obvious..
initcall_debug is a more reliable way to find that. Do you want
all drivers to print something in their init function?