Re: oops pauser. / boot_delayer

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:28:59PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
 > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > 
 > >Also note that the kernel generates a lot of noise^W text - if now the
 > >start scripts from $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO also fill up, I can barely reach
 > >the top of the kernel when it says
 > > Linux version 2.6.15 (jengelh@gwdg-wb04.gwdg.de) (gcc version 4.0.2
 > > 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Jan 3 09:21:27 CET 2006
 > 
 > enable a few different types of encryption and you have to enlarge the 
 > buffer (by quite a bit). the fact that all the encryption tests print 
 > several lines each out and can't be turned off (short of a quiet boot 
 > where you loose everything) is one of the more annoying things to me right 
 > now.
 > 
 > this large boot message issue also slows your boot significantly if you 
 > have a fast box that has a serial console, it takes a long time to dump 
 > all that info out the serial port.

So disable CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST. There's no reason to test this stuff every boot.

		Dave