On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2006-09-12 am 17:29 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > If the system really locks up afterwards they will likely never see it
> > though?
>
> They'll see it at boot.
>
> > I just don't think the printk will that useful and if it locks up people
> > will blame Linux anyways even with printk.
>
> Which is why I also intend to make sure the drivers aren't defaulting to
> ignore but all do it properly and require a force flag. PCIPCI_FAIL
> means it doesn't work. No driver should be ignoring that flag.
Ok that would be more reasonable. Just the printk alone seems to be fairly
pointless to me.
-Andi
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