Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

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[email protected] wrote:
        /* Query EDD information */
 #if defined(CONFIG_EDD) || defined(CONFIG_EDD_MODULE)
-       query_edd();
+        printf("Probing EDD (query Bios for boot-device information)\n");
+        printf("If boot hangs here, you may have a buggy Bios. Try edd=skipmbr or edd=off");
+        query_edd();
+        printf("\rOK                                                                       \n");
 #endif

This is awfully verbose.

I'd prefer something like:

printf("Probing EDD BIOS... ");
query_edd();
printf("ok\n");

[or even "failed"...]

Also, you really should look for the "quiet" command-line option and squelch the message.

	-hpa
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