Re: [PATCH] CCISS: Don't print driver version until we actually find a device

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:43 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 26/07/06, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
> > If we don't find any devices, we shouldn't print anything.
> >
> I disagree.
> I find it quite nice to be able to see that the driver loaded even if
> it finds nothing. At least then when there's a problem, I can quickly
> see that at least it is not because I didn't forget to load the
> driver, it's something else. Saves time since I can start looking for
> reasons why the driver didn't find anything without first spending
> additional time checking if I failed to cause it to load for some
> reason.

I'll add a second reason: it is a REALLY nice property to be able to see
which driver is started last in case of a crash/hang, so that the guilty
party is more obvious..

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