Hello Ian, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:05 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> It's only legacy (non-PnP) ISA drivers of which AFAIK ide-generic is >> the only one d-i tries to load by default > > This made me wonder why we even need to report failure to load > ide-generic to the user, after all if it loads but doesn't find any > hardware we don't report a failure in that case. Since there is no way > to probe for the h/w the driver is being loaded speculatively anyway. > > With that in mind how about this patch? > > --- > Subject: hw-detect: do not report failure to load ide-generic to the user. > > There is no way to probe for the need to load ide-generic but if it > fails then it must be unnecessary and there is no need to pop up an > error dialog to inform the user. > > Only log the failure instead.
I support the idea and it looks like the most correct way of dealing with it. If no one objects, please go ahead and commit it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
