Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:17:04 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20060218.171704.89115583.davem@davemloft.net>
To: davej@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:09:10 -0500

> When users see these printed to the console, they think
> something is wrong.  As it's just informational and something
> that only developers care about, lower the printk level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

I'm partly against such changes, especially lately...

I've been burned so many times over the past few days by things like
installers, klogd, and whatever else changing the loglevel on me so
that the one console message I needed to see right before the machine
hung doesn't get printed out.
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