On the distinguished day of Oct 9, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
>
>  > ...at which point I second the recommendation that orphaned devices be
>  > turned into warnings.
>
> Well, I don't really want to warn about them all the time ... maybe just
> if -v is specified (as for non-defopt'd options).

For those people who want to ensure they are building slim kernels and
don't intend to use orphans later, at least knowing about orphans would be
nice.  What about making a report of orphans simply informational ouput
rather than a "Warning:"?

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-Bryan