Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760256AbXEXE5l (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 00:57:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757450AbXEXE5d (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 00:57:33 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:53669 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756898AbXEXE5c (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 00:57:32 -0400 Message-ID: <46551A93.6050801@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:54:43 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: Michael Tokarev , lkml , akpm Subject: Re: [PATCH] add "notime" boot option References: <20070522120938.db67f1e9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <46541F65.9060507@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20070523100416.93835196.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <465492C8.9060003@gmail.com> <20070523135513.b3573f52.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070523135513.b3573f52.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1387 Lines: 32 On 05/23/2007 10:55 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> That's a good source of confusion. To me, "notime" means something >>>> like "don't bother calculating time", instead of the proposed >>>> behavior. Can't it be something like 'nologts' (no log timestamps) >>>> or nots or notimestamps or nologtime instead >>> >>> "nologtime" is OK with me. or does it confuse people in a different >>> way? Anyone else? >> >> The CONFIG option is called CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. How about "noprintktime"? At >> least nicely to the point... > > Actually I'm concerned about total kernel command line length, > so using option names that are "long" when short will do is not good IMO. > > I.e., I can easily overflow a 255-byte command line length buffer, > so Shorter is Better. Okay. I would by the way not be against turning the timestamping off by default and turning it _on_ with a "timestamps" or "logtime" or whatever option. The information is sometimes handy for seeing the (clustering of) event times so I've been compiling it in for a while on some boxes but in the majority case for me it's noise taking up printk real estate... Rene. - 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/