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Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. 
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Alex wrote:
> 
> > What changing it to
> > 
> > #ifdef VERBOSE_PROBES
> > printf("fnord0: disabled, not probed.\n");
> > #else
> > if (bootverbose)
> >   printf("fnord0: disabled, not probed.\n");
> > #endif
> > 
> > so that you could get either behavior, depending on your taste?
> 
> So people who don't compile their own kernels (ie. the people
> affected by jkh's change) get to choose?  :)

Or with #ifndef one could make it go the other way.  I'd prefer the first
myself, as if something's disabled, I don't want to know about it, as I
probably disabled it in the first place.

- alex