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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: Report model,sn,fw,pci device information during init
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On 6/15/22 4:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 09:57:05AM +0200, Erwan Velu wrote:
>>> I would much prefer to not print it all. The Linux boot is way to spammy
>>> to start with and this doesn't add any real value.
>>>
>>
>> I know the boot is a bit spammy but when systems crash because of nvme
>> drives, that's very handy to get a trace showing who was the culprit and
>> what drive is installed (including the fw version which is usually a major
>> source of troubles).
>
> Well, usually they are all the same or a very small set of different
> SKUs compared to the total number of drives.

Agree that we don't want to add unnecessary spam to the boot messages,
and we don't need tons of lines like eg SCSI does. But it does seem
handy to have a single line of the basic model/fw/sn for each drive
along with the enumeration we already print.

--
Jens Axboe

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