Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262134AbVCOAC7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:02:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262135AbVCOAC7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:02:59 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1667 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262134AbVCOAC5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:02:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:02:34 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Jesse Barnes , David Lang , Dave Jones , OGAWA Hirofumi , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] Message-ID: <20050315000234.GD9873@elf.ucw.cz> References: <16944.62310.967444.786526@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050314083717.GA19337@elf.ucw.cz> <200503140855.18446.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <1110837341.5863.21.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110837341.5863.21.camel@gaston> 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: 1082 Lines: 24 Hi! > > 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... I'd say that's okay, as long as you remove the messages afterwards. Perhaps "cleanup printks just before you remove dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is right thing to require"? 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/