Re: [PATCH 1/4] mfd: smsc: Add support for smsc gpio io/keypad driver

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Aug 21 2012 - 10:08:13 EST


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:52:41PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Fair enough, we have "quiet", but I'm not sure that's enough argument to
> allow any simple driver to start poluting dmesg with whatever random
> messages.

I think if the driver is just logging to say "I'm running" that's noise
and I do push back on that routinely myself; if the driver is providing
information it's discovered from the running system then that seems much
more useful and we should have a sensible way of getting that out in a
place where users are likely to find.

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