Re: Peculiar out-of-sync boot log lines

[Nick Warne]

Hi Jon,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:51:11 -0500
Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:37 +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 2.6.23.9
> > 
> > I have noticed after applying Bart's patch to word93 blacklist my
> > new DVD drive:
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/23/475
> > 
> > I see now in logs (look at the hdd line:
> > 
> > [dmesg]
> > hdc: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63,
> > UDMA(66)
> > hdc: cache flushes not supported
> >  hdc: hdc1
> > hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache<7>hdd:
> > skipping word 93 validity check
> > , UDMA(66)
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> 
> Only very early in boot are you guaranteed for things to execute
> sequentially, and for logs to look nice and pretty.
> 

Yes, but where does the <7> come from?

Nick

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