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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:11:35 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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On 05/24/2007 07:08 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Rene Herman wrote:

>> 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...
> 
> But CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is what controls its "default" (build-time) value.
>  I.e., users can control that.

Yes, but a (full) kernel recompile is a bit of a hard-hitting switch, 
certainly on the older machines where I actually have it enabled...

> I would be OK with removing that config option and only being able to
> enable it, but I doubt that this would have much support.  ;)

Fine by me.

Rene.

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