Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages.

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:15:23AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
 > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:09:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > When users see these printed to the console, they think
 > > something is wrong.  As it's just informational and something
 > > that only developers care about, lower the printk level.
 > 
 > If you're getting complaints about this, wouldn't it be better to
 > forward them here so that they can be fixed up?

w83627hf, and probably other drivers from drivers/hwmon/

 > The thing about this particular message is that if you see it, the
 > driver will _not_ work properly, so it's actually more than a
 > "debugging" message.  It's telling you why driver FOO doesn't work.

I'm pretty certain this driver _was_ working fine before this change.

		Dave
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