Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261964AbVCNWE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:04:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261967AbVCNWD3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:03:29 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:20634 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261984AbVCNWAc (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:00:32 -0500 Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Pavel Machek , David Lang , Dave Jones , OGAWA Hirofumi , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <200503140855.18446.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> References: <16944.62310.967444.786526@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050314083717.GA19337@elf.ucw.cz> <200503140855.18446.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:55:41 +1100 Message-Id: <1110837341.5863.21.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 19 > 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... Oh well, I admit going backward here with my new radeonfb which will be very verbose in a first release, but that will be necessary to track down all the various issues with monitor detection, BIOSes telling crap about connectors etc... Ben. - 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/