Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753573AbZILFol (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752272AbZILFok (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:40 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([173.11.57.241]:33839 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750754AbZILFok (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] logo: random logo selection option From: Matt Mackall To: Miguel Boton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200909120103.41128.mboton@gmail.com> References: <200909120103.41128.mboton@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:44:32 -0500 Message-Id: <1252734272.31016.94.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 23 On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 01:03 +0200, Miguel Boton wrote: > If we select more than one logo in the kernel configuration, only the 'latest' one gets > displayed. Because of this the other logos do not ever have a chance to be displayed. > > This patch adds a selectable option to display a random logo during the bootup process. > This way the kernel will be able to display any available logo, making the bootup process > a little different every time ;) [I foolishly read every LKML message with 'random' in the title..] Bonus points if you add printing a fortune from a compiled-in fortune database? Let's not do this, please. Our goal is instead to boot so fast that such things aren't visible. -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux -- 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/