Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272479AbTGZMsU (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272480AbTGZMsT (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:48:19 -0400 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:61841 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272479AbTGZMsQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:48:16 -0400 To: Mike Fedyk Cc: Jurriaan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cutting down on boot messages References: <20030725195752.GA8107@middle.of.nowhere> <20030725200440.GA1686@matchmail.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 25 Jul 2003 23:09:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030725200440.GA1686@matchmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 15 Mike Fedyk writes: > You'd do better to have a boot time command line option to limit printk > messages to err, or above. Most of the printk messages have been given a > severity already, so this shouldn't be a problem, and it will probably > uncover some errors in the severity of certain messages. Right. In fact I'd rather leave the console printing KERN_INFO and make sure the (debug) messages are really KERN_DEBUG. This way we wouldn't have much noise with normal boot, but we could see KERN_DEBUG when something goes wrong (and the kernel is being told to print everything). -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/