Re: [PATCH] CCISS: Don't print driver version until we actually find a device

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

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@hp.com> 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..

OTOH, it is not a property that scales well at all.

When you build extra drivers into the kernel, or distros load drivers 
you don't need (_every_ distro does this), you wind up with a bunch of 
version strings for drivers for hardware you don't have.

	Jeff



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