On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:21:36PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > With such extensive patches for netrom and rose modules that will go > > into a future 2.6.x kernel, I think it would be justified to update the > > following banners in af_rose.c and af_netrom.c respectively for they > > appear during boot : > > It might be worthwhile to remove the messages altogether. > > IPV4 and the core networking used to output similar initialization > log messages and it really doesn't really add anything but pollute > the already voluminous kernel log. > > So I say we just remove it.
Agreed, patch to remove the messages is below. Ralf Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 3 --- net/rose/af_rose.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-net.git/net/netrom/af_netrom.c =================================================================== --- linux-net.git.orig/net/netrom/af_netrom.c 2006-04-30 10:28:32.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-net.git/net/netrom/af_netrom.c 2006-05-02 00:48:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -1370,8 +1370,6 @@ static struct notifier_block nr_dev_noti static struct net_device **dev_nr; -static char banner[] __initdata = KERN_INFO "G4KLX NET/ROM for Linux. Version 0.7 for AX25.037 Linux 2.4\n"; - static int __init nr_proto_init(void) { int i; @@ -1419,7 +1417,6 @@ static int __init nr_proto_init(void) } register_netdevice_notifier(&nr_dev_notifier); - printk(banner); ax25_protocol_register(AX25_P_NETROM, nr_route_frame); ax25_linkfail_register(nr_link_failed); Index: linux-net.git/net/rose/af_rose.c =================================================================== --- linux-net.git.orig/net/rose/af_rose.c 2006-04-30 13:29:58.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-net.git/net/rose/af_rose.c 2006-05-02 00:48:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -1469,8 +1469,6 @@ static struct notifier_block rose_dev_no static struct net_device **dev_rose; -static const char banner[] = KERN_INFO "F6FBB/G4KLX ROSE for Linux. Version 0.62 for AX25.037 Linux 2.4\n"; - static int __init rose_proto_init(void) { int i; @@ -1519,7 +1517,6 @@ static int __init rose_proto_init(void) sock_register(&rose_family_ops); register_netdevice_notifier(&rose_dev_notifier); - printk(banner); ax25_protocol_register(AX25_P_ROSE, rose_route_frame); ax25_linkfail_register(rose_link_failed); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html