Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261621AbVCNRDf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261623AbVCNRDe (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:34 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:33481 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261621AbVCNRD1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:03:10 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Jesse Barnes Cc: David Lang , Dave Jones , OGAWA Hirofumi , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] Message-ID: <20050314170310.GB5461@elf.ucw.cz> References: <16944.62310.967444.786526@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050314083717.GA19337@elf.ucw.cz> <200503140855.18446.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503140855.18446.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 31 Hi! > > "non-experimental driver may only print out one line per actual > > device?" > > > > (and perhaps: dmesg output for boot going okay should fit on one screen). > > > > Or perhaps we should have warnings-like regression testing. > > > > "New kernel 2.8.17 came: 3 errors, 135 warnings, 1890 lines of dmesg > > junk". > > Pavel > > We already have the 'quiet' option, but even so, I think the kernel is *way* > too verbose. Someone needs to make a personal crusade out of removing > unneeded and unjustified printks from the kernel before it really gets better > though... I know about "quiet". You can 2> /dev/null on warnings, too ;-), and quiet is quite equivalent... And I'm about fed enough to start that personal crusade. OTOH "POSIX conformance testing by UniFix" is gone now ;-). Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/